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Akeo Rufus vulnerabilities

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Published CVEs affecting Akeo Rufus: 1 record(s), with affected versions and fixes.
cpe:2.3:a:akeo:rufus

CVE-2026-23988 High · 7.0 CWE-367 Jan 22, 2026
Rufus has Local Privilege Escalation via TOCTOU Race Condition in Fido Script Handling
Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives. Versions 4.11 and below contain a race condition (TOCTOU) in src/net.c during the creation, validation, and execution of the Fido PowerShell script. Since Rufus runs with elevated privileges (Administrator) but writes the script to the %TEMP% directory (writeable by standard users) without locking the file, a local attacker can replace the legitimate script with a malicious one between the file write operation and the execution step. This allows arbitrary code execution with Administrator privileges. This issue has been fixed in version 4.12_BETA.