CVE-2025-41259
SWUpdate before 2026.05 is affected by a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition that allows local unprivileged attackers to es...
Published: 2026-06-03 · Last updated: 2026-06-04
Severity and scoring
- CWE
- CWE-367
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.
Source: NVD
References
- [NVD]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-41259
- [Other]https://github.com/sbabic/swupdate
- [Other]https://github.com/sbabic/swupdate/commit/f4bd64260e233e207354d68d572b1cbc3e63689d
- [Other]https://github.com/sbaresearch/advisories/tree/public/2025/SBA-ADV-20251206-01_SWUpdate_Untrusted_Script_Execution_via_Signed_Update_TOCTOU
- [Other]https://github.com/sbaresearch/advisories/tree/public/2025/SBA-ADV-20251206-01_SWUpdate_Untrusted_Script_Execution_via_Signed_Update_TOCTOU
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