CVE-2026-41702 (GCVE-0-2026-41702)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-05-15 06:11
Modified
2026-05-15 09:52
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-367 - Time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition
Summary
VMware Fusion contains a TOCTOU (Time-of-check Time-of-use) vulnerability that occurs during an operation performed by a SETUID binary. A malicious actor with local non-administrative user privileges may exploit this vulnerability to escalate privileges to root on the system where Fusion is installed.
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