Summary
Impact: Security Feature Bypass. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What kind of security feature could be bypassed by successfully exploiting this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could bypass Windows Defender Application Control and PowerShell Constrained Language Mode restrictions, allowing untrusted code to run with capabilities those protections are designed to block.
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
An authorized attacker who can execute Windows PowerShell locally under Constrained Language Mode could define and invoke a crafted workflow. Attacker-controlled workflow-definition data is inserted into a generated wrapper that runs in Full Language Mode, allowing the attacker to bypass Windows Defender Application Control and PowerShell Constrained Language Mode restrictions.
Security updates
10.0.14393.9688 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5131291
10.0.17763.9487 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5131085
10.0.19044.7846 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5131096
10.0.20348.5870 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5131090
10.0.22631.7711 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5131087
10.0.26100.9968 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5135385
10.0.26100.33812 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5135386
10.0.28000.3501 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5132059
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.8
Microsoft PowerShell Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
Execution with unnecessary privileges in Windows PowerShell allows an authorized attacker to bypass a security feature locally.
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2026-124226 Microsoft PowerShell Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-124226
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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