High severity8.1NVD Advisory· Published Oct 7, 2026· Updated Oct 7, 2026

CVE-2026-59347

Description

VMware Workstation and Fusion contain a stack-based buffer-overflow vulnerability in HGFS. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may exploit this issue to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host.

Affected versions: - VMware Workstation: 25H2, 26H1 (fixed in 26H1u1) - VMware Fusion: 25H2, 26H1 (fixed in 26H1u1)

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Affected products

VMware/Workstationllm-fuzzy
Range: 25H2, 26H1 (fixed in 26H1u1)
VMware/Fusionllm-fuzzy
Range: 25H2, 26H1 (fixed in 26H1u1)

Patches

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References

support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/security-advisories/0/38288nvd

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