Medium severity · published Oct 5, 2026
CVE-2026-77804
Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in Root Certificate Installation in Progress® Telerik® Fiddler® Classic
6.6
CVSS
0.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In Progress® Telerik® Fiddler® Classic for Windows, versions prior to v6.0.20262.10021, a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition exists in the installation of the HTTPS interception root certificate into the Local Computer certificate store. Fiddler writes the certificate to a temporary file in a user-writable location and then launches the external TrustCert helper application, which elevates and imports the certificate from that file. A local threat actor with low privileges who replaces the temporary file between the time it is written and the time the elevated helper reads it can cause an attacker-supplied root certificate to be installed in the Local Computer Trusted Root Certification Authorities store, enabling subsequent interception and modification of TLS-protected traffic on the machine. Successful exploitation requires the user to initiate the certificate trust operation and approve the elevation prompt.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.1% · higher than 0% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PT
Progress® Telerik® Fiddler® Classic · Progress Software
1.0.0 before 6.0.20262.10021 · source: vendor
Affected product
PT
Progress® Telerik® Fiddler® Classic
Progress Software
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-77804
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-77804
vendor-advisory
https://docs.telerik.com/fiddler/knowledge-base/kb-security-root-certificate-installation-toctou-cve-2026-77804
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