Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
Exploiting this vulnerability would allow the attacker to perform arbitrary deletion of files that are not accessible to unprivileged users on the victim machine.
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, user interaction is Required (UI:R). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
The successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires a user with administrator privileges to perform specific operations on the endpoint targeted by the attacker.
Security updates
10.0.17763.9487 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5131085
10.0.20348.5870 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5131090
10.0.19044.7846 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5131096
10.0.26100.33822 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5131080
10.0.26100.33730 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5131077
10.0.26200.9974 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5132061
10.0.26200.9911 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5132043
10.0.22631.7711 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5131087
10.0.28000.3501 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5132059
10.0.14393.9688 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5131291
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 6.7
Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Missing authorization in Windows Installer allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2026-119852 Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-119852
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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