FKIE_CVE-2026-23988

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-01-22 22:16 - Updated: 2026-06-17 10:22
Severity
7.3 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.0 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives. Versions 4.11 and below contain a race condition (TOCTOU) in src/net.c during the creation, validation, and execution of the Fido PowerShell script. Since Rufus runs with elevated privileges (Administrator) but writes the script to the %TEMP% directory (writeable by standard users) without locking the file, a local attacker can replace the legitimate script with a malicious one between the file write operation and the execution step. This allows arbitrary code execution with Administrator privileges. This issue has been fixed in version 4.12_BETA.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/pbatard/rufus/commit/460cc5768aa45be07941b9e4ebc9bee02d282873Patch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/pbatard/rufus/releases/tag/v4.12_BETABroken Link
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/pbatard/rufus/security/advisories/GHSA-hcx5-hrhj-xhq9Exploit, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
akeo rufus *
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