CVE-2026-59347

high

Description

VMware Workstation and Fusion contain a stack-based buffer-overflow vulnerability in HGFS. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may exploit this issue to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host. Affected versions: - VMware Workstation: 25H2, 26H1 (fixed in 26H1u1) - VMware Fusion: 25H2, 26H1 (fixed in 26H1u1)

References

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-10-07

Updated: 2026-10-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.1

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00207