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Description

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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-04-22 | Published 2026-05-15 | Updated 2026-05-15 | Assigner vmware




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

Problem types

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

Product status

Default status
unaffected

2025H2 (custom) before 2026H1
affected

References

support.broadcom.com/...l/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/37454

cve.org (CVE-2026-41702)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-41702)

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