{
  "id": 242977,
  "title": "Zapscape Is The Latest Linux Vulnerability For KVM Guest-To-Host Escape, LPE",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/07/zapscape-is-the-latest-linux-vulnerability-for-kvm-guest-to-host",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-07T00:29:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phoronix",
    "slug": "phoronix",
    "url": "https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Zapscape-Vulnerability"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Made public earlier today is Zapscape as a guest-to-host escape vulnerability affecting the Linux KVM x86 code for the past six years. This 2020 kernel change to KVM x86 can also be used as a local privilege escalation (LPE) exploit too where /dev/kvm is world-writable on some Linux distributions like RHEL...",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}