๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ CVE-2026-23988
๐ŸŸ  CVSS 7.3 โ€” High โš ๏ธ Exploit Public CWE-367 NVD
7.3
CVSS Score
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Description

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.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-367
Public Exploit โš ๏ธ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2026-01-22
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2026-02-27

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
rufus โ€” 4.12

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