Race condition in WinFSP
Priority LOW 32CWE-362Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
Successful exploitation of the race condition vulnerability could allow an attacker to trigger a kernel heap overflow, potentially leading to local privilege escalation and granting system-level access to the affected software.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00142 3rd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Important. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 1 product
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-3006
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-799v-78v3-96jc
References
More WinFSP vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-06285 Integer overflow in WinFsp CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
- TI-2026-63100 WinFsp through 2.2.26215 NULL Pointer Dereference via Fast I/O CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.8
Sources
- CVE-2026-3006 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-3006 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-799v-78v3-96jc · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-3006 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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