CVE-2026-27211: Cloud Hypervisor: Host File Exfiltration via QCOW Backing File Abuse

Overview

Severity
Critical (CVSS 10)
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Exploit Status
Not Exploited
Patch Tuesday
2026-Feb
Released
2026-02-25
Last Updated
2026-02-26
EPSS Score
0.05% (percentile: 16.5%)

Affected Products (2)

Open Source Software

  • azl3 cloud-hypervisor 48.0.246-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • cbl2 cloud-hypervisor-cvm 38.0.72.2-5 on CBL Mariner 2.0

Revision History

  • 2026-02-25: Information published.
  • 2026-02-26: Information published.