{"id":9287,"date":"2026-08-06T18:16:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T18:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/06\/new-zapscape-kvm-flaw-could-let-privileged-l1-guest-code-escape-to-linux-hosts\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T18:16:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T18:16:51","slug":"new-zapscape-kvm-flaw-could-let-privileged-l1-guest-code-escape-to-linux-hosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/06\/new-zapscape-kvm-flaw-could-let-privileged-l1-guest-code-escape-to-linux-hosts\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zapscape KVM Flaw Could Let Privileged L1 Guest Code Escape to Linux Hosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bZapscape, a new Linux kernel vulnerability, could allow an attacker with kernel privileges inside an L1 guest virtual machine (VM) to escape KVM isolation and execute code on the host. The risk applies when nested virtualization is exposed to untrusted guests.<\/p>\n<p>The flaw is tracked as\u00a0CVE-2026-64561\u00a0and affects KVM\/x86&#8217;s shadow memory management unit (MMU), which manages shadow page\u00a0Zapscape, a new Linux kernel vulnerability, could allow an attacker with kernel privileges inside an L1 guest virtual machine (VM) to escape KVM isolation and execute code on the host. The risk applies when nested virtualization is exposed to untrusted guests.<\/p>\n<p>The flaw is tracked as\u00a0CVE-2026-64561\u00a0and affects KVM\/x86&#8217;s shadow memory management unit (MMU), which manages shadow page\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bZapscape, a new Linux kernel vulnerability, could allow an attacker with kernel privileges inside an L1 guest virtual machine (VM) to escape KVM isolation and execute code on the host. The risk applies when nested virtualization is exposed to untrusted guests. The flaw is tracked as\u00a0CVE-2026-64561\u00a0and affects KVM\/x86&#8217;s shadow memory management unit (MMU), which manages&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/06\/new-zapscape-kvm-flaw-could-let-privileged-l1-guest-code-escape-to-linux-hosts\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Zapscape KVM Flaw Could Let Privileged L1 Guest Code Escape to Linux Hosts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}