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)
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| 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) | |
| Title | VMware Workstation and Fusion HGFS stack-based buffer-overflow vulnerability | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-121 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: vmware
Published: 2026-10-07T05:40:05.544Z
Updated: 2026-10-07T11:29:34.197Z
Reserved: 2026-07-04T18:14:34.673Z
Link: CVE-2026-59347
Updated: 2026-10-07T11:29:29.783Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-10-07T06:16:35.700
Modified: 2026-10-07T15:58:17.433
Link: CVE-2026-59347
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