MSRC-CVE-2026-102868 — Windows Shell Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Summary

Impact: Information Disclosure. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.

Details

What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could leak the address of a medium integrity process to a lower integrity caller process.

Security updates
10.0.22631.7711 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5131087
10.0.26100.9445 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5124008
10.0.28000.3501 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5132059

Vulnerabilities 1

Medium 5.5

CVE-2026-102868

Windows Shell Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Exposure of sensitive system information to an unauthorized control sphere in Windows Shell allows an authorized attacker to disclose information locally.

Microsoft Windows 11 Version 24H2 Windows 11 version 23H2 Windows 11 Version 25H2 Windows

Nov 10, 2026

Revision history

2026-11-10 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2026-102868 Windows Shell Information Disclosure Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-102868
Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss