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Successful exploitation of the race condition vulnerability could allow
an attacker to trigger a kernel heap overflow, potentially leading to local privilege
es…
Published:
26 april 2026 om 22:00:00
Alert date:
27 april 2026 om 04:02:01
Source:
nvd.nist.gov
Operating Systems
CVE-2026-3006 is a race condition vulnerability in WinFSP that can be exploited to trigger a kernel heap overflow. Successful exploitation allows an attacker to achieve local privilege escalation and gain system-level access to the affected software. The vulnerability represents a high-severity security issue that could compromise the integrity of systems running vulnerable versions of WinFSP. The issue has been addressed in version v2.2B1 according to the GitHub release notes.
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Affected products:
WinFSP
Related links:
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-3006
https://github.com/winfsp/winfsp/releases/tag/v2.2B1
https://www.csa.gov.sg/alerts-and-advisories/alerts/al-2026-043
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