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)
Affected versions:
- VMware Workstation: 25H2, 26H1 (fixed in 26H1u1)
- VMware Fusion: 25H2, 26H1 (fixed in 26H1u1)
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Wed, 07 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0000
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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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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: vmware
Published:
Updated: 2026-10-07T05:40:05.544Z
Reserved: 2026-07-04T18:14:34.673Z
Link: CVE-2026-59347
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NVD
Status : Received
Published: 2026-10-07T06:16:35.700
Modified: 2026-10-07T06:16:35.700
Link: CVE-2026-59347
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