CVE-2025-41259

N/A Unknown

Published: June 03, 2026 Modified: June 04, 2026

Description

SWUpdate before 2026.05 is affected by a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition that allows local unprivileged attackers to escalate privileges to root or install untrusted contents using a signed update.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

https://github.com/sbabic/swupdate

Source: 1e3a9e0f-5156-4bf8-b8a3-cc311bfc0f4a

https://github.com/sbabic/swupdate/commit/f4bd64260e233e207354d68d572b1cbc3e63689d

Source: 1e3a9e0f-5156-4bf8-b8a3-cc311bfc0f4a

https://github.com/sbaresearch/advisories/tree/public/2025/SBA-ADV-20251206-01_SWUpdate_Untrusted_Script_Execution_via_Signed_Update_TOCTOU

Source: 1e3a9e0f-5156-4bf8-b8a3-cc311bfc0f4a

https://github.com/sbaresearch/advisories/tree/public/2025/SBA-ADV-20251206-01_SWUpdate_Untrusted_Script_Execution_via_Signed_Update_TOCTOU

Source: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

4 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score

N/A / 10.0

EPSS (Exploit Probability)

0.1%

1th percentile

Exploitation Status

Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-367

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