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 escalate privileges to root or install untrusted contents using a signed update.

CVSS

No CVSS.

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/sbabic/swupdate
https://github.com/sbabic/swupdate/commit/f4bd64260e233e207354d68d572b1cbc3e63689d
https://github.com/sbaresearch/advisories/tree/public/2025/SBA-ADV-20251206-01_SWUpdate_Untrusted_Script_Execution_via_Signed_Update_TOCTOU
https://github.com/sbaresearch/advisories/tree/public/2025/SBA-ADV-20251206-01_SWUpdate_Untrusted_Script_Execution_via_Signed_Update_TOCTOU

Configurations

No configuration.

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-06-03 13:16

Updated : 2026-07-22 19:10

NVD link : CVE-2025-41259

Mitre link : CVE-2025-41259

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-41259

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Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-367

Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

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