CVE-2026-23988

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 scri...

Rufus security vulnerabilities

Rufus is a reliable USB formatting tool developed by Pete Batard as an individual developer. Versions of Rufus 4.11 and earlier contained security vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities stemmed from race conditions during the creation, validation, and execution of Fido PowerShell scripts, which...