CVE-2026-13212

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-13212
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-13212.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-13212
Aliases
  • GHSA-7884-373w-qqhx
Published
2026-08-24T15:43:37.762Z
Modified
2026-08-28T14:33:01.604375Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Zephyr virtio driver calls an arbitrary function pointer from an out-of-range used-ring descriptor id
Details

The Zephyr virtio driver does not validate the descriptor-chain head id that the virtio device writes into the used ring. In virtioisr() (drivers/virtio/virtiocommon.c), the device-written vq->used->ring[idx].id is used directly as an index into vq->recvcbs[] and vq->desc[], which are both allocated with exactly vq->num entries. recvcbs[] holds {cb, opaque} callback entries, and the indexed callback pointer is then invoked as cbe.cb(cbe.opaque, used_len).

Because the id is consumed as a 16-bit value with no bound check, a malicious or compromised virtio backend (an untrusted hypervisor, or an untrusted hardware/peer-processor virtio device on a PCI or MMIO transport) can supply an id far beyond vq->num. This causes an out-of-bounds read of a {function pointer, argument} pair from heap memory beyond recv_cbs[], after which the driver calls that attacker-shaped pointer in the guest's interrupt context. No guest privileges or user interaction are required; the backend triggers it by writing the shared used ring and raising the queue interrupt.

The result is an arbitrary / attacker-influenced function-pointer call in the Zephyr guest, i.e. a control-flow-hijack primitive that can lead to code execution or, at minimum, a reliable crash. The fix rejects any used-ring id >= vq->num before indexing recvcbs[]/desc[] or invoking the callback. This affects builds using CONFIGVIRTIO with the PCI or MMIO transport.

Database specific
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    "cwe_ids": [
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    ],
    "cna_assigner": "zephyr"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Events
Database specific
Show details
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Affected versions

v4.*
v4.2.0
v4.3.0
v4.3.0-rc1
v4.3.0-rc2
v4.3.0-rc3
v4.4.0
v4.4.0-rc1
v4.4.0-rc2
v4.4.0-rc3

Database specific

vanir_signatures
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source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-13212.json"
vanir_signatures_modified
"2026-08-28T14:33:01Z"