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High MSRC-CVE-2026-103568 1 CVE

Windows Credential Providers Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published Oct 13, 2026 · Updated Oct 13, 2026

Summary

Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.

Details

According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to win a race condition.

According to the CVSS metric, successful exploitation could lead to a scope change (S:C). What does this mean for this vulnerability?
In this case, a successful attack could be performed from a low privilege AppContainer. The attacker could elevate their privileges and execute code or access resources at a higher integrity level than that of the AppContainer execution environment.

What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
An attacker could use this vulnerability to elevate privileges from a Low Integrity Level in a contained ("sandboxed") execution environment to a Medium Integrity Level.
Please refer to AppContainer isolation and Mandatory Integrity Control for more information.

Security updates
6.2.9200.26434 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126835
6.3.9600.23470 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126836
10.0.14393.9612 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126868
10.0.17763.9376 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126651
10.0.19044.7807 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126657
10.0.20348.5761 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126655
10.0.22631.7652 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126653
10.0.26100.9711 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5127648
10.0.26100.33650 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126646
10.0.28000.3231 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5127646

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