CVE-2026-51082 | BDVDB-2026-349236 Detail

Description#

A race condition between the vncproxy and vncwebsocket API calls in Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE) 9.x pve-manager before 9.1.9 and 8.x before 8.4.19; qemu-server 9.x before 9.1.7 and 8.x before 8.4.7; and pve-container before 6.1.3 (PVE 9.x) and before 5.3.4 (PVE 8.x) allows an attacker with privileges to call "vncproxy" to hijack a VNC session that is established in parallel by a different user for a different VM.

Impact#

Per CVSS v3.1: confidentiality impact high, integrity impact high, availability impact high. Attack vector: network.

Weaknesses#

CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

References#

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-virtual-environment-security-advisories.149331/post-849971

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12026-07-17Record published in the CVE List.

Published

Published: 2026-07-17
Last modified: 2026-07-17

Vendor information

Vendor: Not stated
Product: Not stated

Score

7.2 High

EPSS

less than 1%, Very Low

Estimated chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. EPSS percentile: 33.0.

KEV

Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Impact

Race Condition

Action

No specific action is recorded in the source data. Check the references for vendor guidance.

Affected Systems

No version data in the source record.

Scoring System

CVSS v4.0

Not available

CVSS v3.1

7.2 High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Metric breakdown
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	High
User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity	High
Availability	High

CVSS v3.0

Not available

CVSS v2

Not available

Source: CVE List v5 (record); CISA KEV (kev, action); FIRST EPSS (epss).