CVE-2026-18448

Publication date 10 November 2026

Last updated 13 November 2026


Ubuntu priority

Description

Insufficient Transient Scheduler Attack (TSA) mitigations in EDK II could allow a ring-0 attacker to infer residual microarchitectural state left by SMM execution, potentially resulting in disclosure of SMRAM contents.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
edk2 26.10 stonking
Needs evaluation
26.04 LTS resolute
Needs evaluation
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
22.04 LTS jammy
Needs evaluation
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
edk2-hwe 26.10 stonking
Needs evaluation
26.04 LTS resolute
Needs evaluation
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v4.0

Base score 5.6 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N


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