CVE-2026-45782

Cloud Hypervisor: Use-after-free in virtio-block Async I/O Completion

Published Jun 9, 2026 CVSS 4.0 · 8.9 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
Cloud Hypervisor is a Virtual Machine Monitor for Cloud workloads. From version 21.0 to before version 51.2, a guest can cause a use-after-free in the cloud-hypervisor process by submitting two virtio-block descriptor chains that reuse the same head_index while asynchronous block I/O is enabled (e.g. io_uring, aio). When the kernel completes the duplicate operation before the original, the completion path frees a bounce buffer that the kernel is still actively reading from or writing to, corrupting the freed memory. This issue has been patched in versions 51.2 and 52.0.

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Description Cloud Hypervisor is a Virtual Machine Monitor for Cloud workloads. From version 21.0 to before version 51.2, a guest can cause a use-after-free in the cloud-hypervisor process by submitting two virtio-block descriptor chains that reuse the same head_index while asynchronous block I/O is enabled (e.g. io_uring, aio). When the kernel completes the duplicate operation before the original, the completion path frees a bounce buffer that the kernel is still actively reading from or writing to, corrupting the freed memory. This issue has been patched in versions 51.2 and 52.0.
Title Cloud Hypervisor: Use-after-free in virtio-block Async I/O Completion
Weaknesses CWE-416
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H'}

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Jun 10, 2026, 4:32 PM
Reserved
May 13, 2026, 7:45 AM
Status
Deferred
Published
Jun 10, 2026, 12:16 AM
Modified
Jul 23, 2026, 9:10 AM