# CVE-2026-45782: Cloud Hypervisor: Use-after-free in virtio-block Async I/O Completion

- Severity: CVSS 8.9 (High), CNA
- 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
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 51.2
- Published: 2026-06-09 · Updated: 2026-06-10

## Affected

- cloud-hypervisor: from 21.0, fixed in 51.2

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on cloud-hypervisor, upgrade to a fixed version (51.2) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor/security/advisories/GHSA-f47p-p25q-83rh
- https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor/pull/8220
- https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor/commit/1314ac883c641f1045bbb06dec0de045a3894baa
- https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor/releases/tag/v51.2
- https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor/releases/tag/v52.0

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