elevation of privilege

Microsoft’s Security Update Guide now records CVE-2026-20924 as an Elevation of Privilege affecting Windows Management Services, and the entry’s confidence indicator — the vendor’s measure of how certain the issue is and how detailed the technical data are — is the single most important signal...

A newly recorded elevation‑of‑privilege flaw in Windows Management Services (WMS) — tracked as CVE‑2026‑20924 — has been registered in Microsoft’s Security Update Guide and classified as an elevation of privilege risk on administrative hosts, forcing operators to treat management‑plane hosts as...

Microsoft has recorded CVE-2026-20877 as an elevation‑of‑privilege vulnerability tied to Windows Management Services (WMS), and the vendor’s sparse public advisory — coupled with Microsoft’s “confidence” metric — demands immediate, measured attention from administrators responsible for...

Microsoft’s Security Update Guide records CVE-2026-20877 as an Elevation of Privilege (EoP) defect in Windows Management Services — a vendor-classified local‑attack vulnerability that, if successfully weaponized, can allow a low‑privilege process or local user to gain higher privileges on an...

Headline: CVE‑2026‑20918 — How Microsoft’s “confidence” metric changes the way defenders should treat a Windows Management Services elevation‑of‑privilege Subheadline: When an MSRC entry exists but technical details are sparse, the vendor’s confidence signal is the most important operational...

Microsoft’s Security Update Guide lists a new Windows kernel vulnerability, CVE‑2026‑20860, in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (afd.sys) that Microsoft categorizes as an elevation‑of‑privilege (EoP) issue; the vendor has published an Update Guide entry and a security update...

Microsoft’s Security Update Guide now records CVE‑2026‑20842 as an elevation‑of‑privilege flaw in the Desktop Window Manager (DWM) Core Library, but the vendor’s published record offers limited technical detail; administrators should treat the entry as a confirmed, high‑value local EoP and move...

Microsoft’s advisory for CVE-2026-20836 names a DirectX Graphics Kernel elevation-of-privilege issue tied to the kernel-mode graphics driver (dxgkrnl.sys), but at the time of writing the vendor’s entry is rendered dynamically and the public record for this specific CVE is thin: the Security...

Microsoft’s tracking entry for CVE-2026-20832 identifies a privilege‑escalation flaw rooted in the Windows Remote Procedure Call (RPC) subsystem’s handling of Interface Definition Language (IDL) constructs — a class of bugs that historically yields reliable local elevation-of-privilege chains...

Microsoft has recorded CVE‑2025‑64663 as an elevation‑of‑privilege issue tied to Custom Question Answering (Microsoft’s knowledge‑base / conversational Q&A service), and the advisory is accompanied by Microsoft’s confidence metric that explicitly signals how much of the technical detail is...

Microsoft has assigned CVE-2025-62462 to a newly disclosed buffer over‑read in the Windows Projected File System (ProjFS) that can be abused by a local, authorized attacker to achieve elevation of privilege; the industry score for the issue is high (CVSS v3.1 ≈ 7.8) and the entry appears in...

Microsoft’s advisory listing for CVE-2025-64673 identifies an Elevation of Privilege flaw in the Windows Storage Virtualization Service Provider (VSP) driver, but public technical detail is limited and the vendor’s entry omits low-level exploit mechanics — leaving defenders to act on...

Microsoft’s security telemetry shows a new Windows elevation‑of‑privilege advisory tied to the Application Information Service under the identifier CVE‑2025‑62572, and system administrators should treat it as a high‑priority patching item: the vendor listing classifies the flaw as an...

Microsoft’s security trackers and independent aggregators have recorded CVE-2025-62571 as a high‑severity Windows Installer elevation of privilege vulnerability that permits a local, authorized attacker to gain higher privileges by exploiting improper input validation in the Windows Installer...

Microsoft’s security naming for CVE‑2025‑62469 appears in some feeds as an alleged Elevation‑of‑Privilege (EoP) issue affecting the Microsoft Brokering File System, but as of this reporting the specific CVE string cannot be reliably located or rendered on public vendor pages and major trackers —...

Microsoft’s advisory that a newly recorded vulnerability, tracked as CVE‑2025‑64657, affects Azure Application Gateway and can lead to elevation of privilege has raised immediate operational questions for cloud teams: what exactly is known, how confident should defenders be in the published...

Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE‑2025‑64655, an elevation of privilege vulnerability affecting the Dynamics OmniChannel SDK Storage Containers component — a finding that demands immediate attention from administrators running Dynamics‑based Omnichannel deployments and any integrations...

Microsoft’s Security Response Guide lists CVE-2025-49752 as an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability affecting Azure Bastion, and administrators should treat it as a high-priority cloud-management risk while they confirm vendor guidance and deploy the vendor-recommended mitigations. Background...

Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE‑2025‑60721, a high‑severity elevation‑of‑privilege flaw that targets the new Windows Administrator Protection elevation flow and can let a local, authenticated attacker obtain administrative‑equivalent privileges by abusing a privilege context...

Microsoft has quietly added a powerful — and potentially game‑changing — layer to Windows 11’s privilege model: Administrator Protection, a just‑in‑time elevation system that isolates admin elevation from a signed‑in user by creating a temporary, system‑managed admin context for each elevated...