Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
An attacker who controls an application with the affected role-removal permission could send a specially crafted request over the network to assign privileged directory roles. Successful exploitation could give the attacker Global Administrator privileges in the affected tenant without user interaction.
Vulnerabilities 1
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Critical 9.1
Microsoft Graph Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Incorrect authorization in Microsoft Graph allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2026-114162 Microsoft Graph Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-114162
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Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
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Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
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Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss