{"id":75861,"date":"2026-01-28T19:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-23553-x86-incomplete-ibpb-for-vcpu-isolation\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T19:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:16:16","slug":"cve-2026-23553-x86-incomplete-ibpb-for-vcpu-isolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-23553-x86-incomplete-ibpb-for-vcpu-isolation\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-23553 &#8211; x86: incomplete IBPB for vCPU isolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2026-23553<\/p>\n<p>Published :  Jan. 28, 2026, 4:16 p.m. | 51\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>Description : In the context switch logic Xen attempts to skip an IBPB in the case of<br \/>\na vCPU returning to a CPU on which it was the previous vCPU to run.<br \/>\nWhile safe for Xen&#8217;s isolation between vCPUs, this prevents the guest<br \/>\nkernel correctly isolating between tasks.  Consider:<\/p>\n<p> 1) vCPU runs on CPU A, running task 1.<br \/>\n 2) vCPU moves to CPU B, idle gets scheduled on A.  Xen skips IBPB.<br \/>\n 3) On CPU B, guest kernel switches from task 1 to 2, issuing IBPB.<br \/>\n 4) vCPU moves back to CPU A.  Xen skips IBPB again.<\/p>\n<p>Now, task 2 is running on CPU A with task 1&#8217;s training still in the BTB.<\/p>\n<p>Severity: 0.0 | NA<\/p>\n<p>Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2026-23553 Published : Jan. 28, 2026, 4:16 p.m. | 51\u00a0minutes ago Description : In the context switch logic Xen attempts to skip an IBPB in the case of a vCPU returning to a CPU on which it was the previous vCPU to run. While safe for Xen&#8217;s isolation between vCPUs, this prevents &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}