Summary
Microsoft Windows Update Stack contains a link following vulnerability that allows a local attacker to escalate privileges locally up to SYSTEM.
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Windows
- Added to KEV
- Sep 8, 2026
- Remediation due
- Sep 22, 2026 (US federal deadline)
- Ransomware use
- Not known
- Weakness
- CWE-59, CWE-284
- EPSS
- 7.1% 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