VMware Workstation and Fusion contain a stack-based buffer-overflow vulnerability in HGFS.
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)
Read at NIST National Vulnerability Database (CVE API 2.0)
- Vendor
- VMware (Broadcom)
- Product
- workstation
- CVSS
- 8.1
- EPSS
- 0.002 (p14)
- Fix
- available
- Exposure class
- Hypervisor
Why it ranks 33 (Notable)
- CVSS 8.1 high
- Exposed product class: hypervisor
- Widely deployed vendor product (VMware (Broadcom))
- Fix available
- Recency: items published within 24 hours gain 15, within 72 hours 6, within 7 days 2.
Links
- NIST National Vulnerability Database (CVE API 2.0) (nvd.nist.gov)
- CVE-2026-59347 on this site · NVD · CVE.org · Vulnpedia