Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-41259

High

Published: 03 June 2026

Published
03 June 2026
Modified
04 June 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v4 7.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS Score 0.0010 1.1th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-41259 is a high-severity Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition (CWE-367) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 7.3 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 1.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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.

CWE(s)
CWE-367

Related Threats

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2024-41917Shared CWE-367
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CVE-2023-31324Shared CWE-367
CVE-2026-2364Shared CWE-367
CVE-2023-20548Shared CWE-367
CVE-2026-45208Shared CWE-367
CVE-2026-41651Shared CWE-367
CVE-2026-25728Shared CWE-367
CVE-2026-31678Shared CWE-367
CVE-2026-41296Shared CWE-367

Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

AU-8 Time Stamps
addresses: CWE-367

Timestamps meeting UTC or offset standards help identify TOCTOU issues through precise chronological reconstruction of check/use operations.

References