{"id":78503,"date":"2026-05-15T10:46:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-41702-toctou-local-privilege-escalation-vulnerability\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T10:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:16:18","slug":"cve-2026-41702-toctou-local-privilege-escalation-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-41702-toctou-local-privilege-escalation-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-41702 &#8211; TOCTOU local privilege escalation vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-41702<\/p>\n<p>  Published : May 15, 2026, 7:16 a.m. | 41\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :VMware Fusion contains a TOCTOU (Time-of-check Time-of-use) vulnerability\u00a0that occurs during an operation performed by a SETUID binary.\u00a0A malicious actor with local non-administrative user privileges may exploit this vulnerability to escalate privileges to root on the system where Fusion is installed.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 7.8 | HIGH<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-41702 Published : May 15, 2026, 7:16 a.m. | 41\u00a0minutes ago Description :VMware Fusion contains a TOCTOU (Time-of-check Time-of-use) vulnerability\u00a0that occurs during an operation performed by a SETUID binary.\u00a0A malicious actor with local non-administrative user privileges may exploit this vulnerability to escalate privileges to root on the system where Fusion is installed. Severity: &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}