Summary
Impact: Information Disclosure. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Unlikely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could potentially read portions of process memory.
Security updates
10.0.17763.8276 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5073723
10.0.20348.4648 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5073457
10.0.19044.6809 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5073724
10.0.26100.32230 — https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/a6021fd2-b3b7-45a7-b68e-35c28a2a77da
10.0.26200.7623 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5074109
10.0.22631.6491 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5073455
10.0.25398.2092 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5073450
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 5.5
Windows Management Services Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor in Windows Management Services allows an authorized attacker to disclose information locally.
Revision history
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2026-20862 Windows Management Services Information Disclosure Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-20862
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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