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CVE-2026-46655

HIGH · CVSS 7.8 EPSS 0.18% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS · Published 2026-09-18 · Last synced 2026-10-12

CyberRota Analysis

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The Viosock driver in virtio-win versions mm210 to mm320 for Windows is vulnerable to a local privilege escalation attack due to an integer overflow in the IOCTL_SELECT request handling. An attacker can exploit this flaw to corrupt kernel memory, potentially gaining elevated privileges within a Windows guest environment. Organizations utilizing affected versions of virtio-win should prioritize patching to mitigate the risk of exploitation.

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CVE
CVE-2026-46655
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
0.18%
Windows

Original NVD Description

virtio-win provides Windows paravirtualized drivers for QEMU and KVM. From mm210 until mm320, the Viosock driver permits a low-privilege local process to submit an IOCTL_SELECT request with attacker-controlled VIRTIO_VSOCK_SELECT.Fdss[*].fd_count values that overflow the 32-bit sum used by VIOSockSelect for bounds checking. The wrapped sum can pass the FD_SETSIZE check even though an individual descriptor count is much larger than the expected limit. VIOSockSelectCopyFds then iterates using the unchecked count and writes beyond the allocated pPkt->Fds array in the NonPagedPool kernel heap. Successful exploitation can corrupt kernel memory and enable privilege escalation in a Windows guest running the driver. This issue is fixed in mm320.