Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What privileges could an attacker gain by exploiting this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to execute code in the security context of the affected service. The permissions available to the attacker would be limited to those granted to that service.
Security updates
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
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.8
Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Heap-based buffer overflow in Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2026-118222 Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-118222
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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