CVE-2026-41702 PUBLISHED

TOCTOU local privilege escalation vulnerability

Assigner: vmware
Reserved: 22.04.2026 Published: 15.05.2026 Updated: 15.05.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 7.8

Product Status

Vendor VMware
Product Fusion
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 2025H2 to 2026H1 (excl.)

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-367 Time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition CWE