Answer in brief
CVE-2026-48914 records a Medium severity (CVSS 6.7) vulnerability in Qemu-kvm: heap buffer overflow in virtio-blk scsi request handling. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Affected software not mapped in the current feed; confirm the named product and version against your inventory.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 6.7. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
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Affected software not mapped in the current feed; confirm the named product and version against your inventory.
Published upstream
Jun 12, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Aug 21, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Jul 13, 2026
A flaw was found in QEMU's virtio-blk device. The issue arises because the device does not properly validate the size of input descriptors before writing data. A malicious guest with high privileges could exploit this vulnerability by submitting a malformed virtio-blk SCSI request, leading to an out-of-bounds write in the host heap memory and a potential denial of service (DoS) for the QEMU process.
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