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 this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.
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.
Security updates
10.0.28000.1719 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5079466
10.0.17763.8511 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5078752
10.0.20348.4893 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5078766
10.0.20348.4830 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5078737
10.0.19044.7058 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5078885
10.0.26100.32522 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5078740
10.0.26100.32463 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5078736
10.0.26200.8037 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5079473
10.0.26200.7979 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5079420
10.0.22631.6783 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5078883
10.0.25398.2207 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5078734
10.0.14393.8957 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5078938
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.0
Windows Device Association Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Concurrent execution using shared resource with improper synchronization ('race condition') in Windows Device Association Service allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Revision history
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2026-24295 Windows Device Association Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-24295
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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