Guest-to-host compromise via wild vCPU pointer
Published Oct 31, 2025 · Updated Nov 4, 2025
Out-of-bounds access in Xen 4.15 and newer allows guest OS users to elevate privileges on or crash an x86 host via Viridian hypercalls. send_ipi() uses a guest-supplied vCPU mask to index d->vcpu[] without sufficient bounds checks and operates on the resulting wild pointer. Only x86 HVM guests with any viridian= setting can reach the flaw; exploitation can also disclose host information or interrupt the entire host.
Summary
What happened
Out-of-bounds access in Xen 4.15 and newer allows guest OS users to elevate privileges on or crash an x86 host via Viridian hypercalls. send_ipi() uses a guest-supplied vCPU mask to index d->vcpu[] without sufficient bounds checks and operates on the resulting wild pointer. Only x86 HVM guests with any viridian= setting can reach the flaw; exploitation can also disclose host information or interrupt the entire host.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-58148
- Published
- Oct 31, 2025
- Updated
- Nov 4, 2025
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-787, CWE-125, T1611
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Oct 31, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Nov 4, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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