Summary
Microsoft Windows Shell contains a protection mechanism failure vulnerability that could allow an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature over a network.
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Windows
- Added to KEV
- Feb 10, 2026
- Remediation due
- Mar 3, 2026 (US federal deadline)
- Ransomware use
- Not known
- Weakness
- CWE-693
- EPSS
- 61.2% as of Nov 12
In the news
- No Asia-Pacific article names this CVE yet.
Linked
Actors named alongside it:
none
Incidents exploiting it:
- none recorded
References