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?
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 or a High Integrity Level.
Please refer to AppContainer isolation and Mandatory Integrity Control for more information.
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
An attacker who can execute code in a low-privilege AppContainer could exploit this vulnerability locally to escape the sandbox and elevate privileges on the affected system. No additional user interaction is required.
Security updates
10.0.26300.9974 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5132061
10.0.26300.9911 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5132043
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
10.0.22631.7711 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5131087
10.0.28000.3501 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5132059
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.8
Windows Text Services Framework Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Out-of-bounds read in Windows Text Services Framework allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2026-119925 Windows Text Services Framework Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-119925
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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