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High MSRC-CVE-2026-26168 1 CVE

Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published Apr 14, 2026 · Updated May 29, 2026 · Revision 3

Summary

Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.

Details

According to the CVSS metric, successful exploitation could lead to a scope change (S:C). What does this mean for this vulnerability?
In this case, a successful attack could be performed from a low privilege AppContainer. The attacker could elevate their privileges and execute code or access resources at a higher integrity level than that of the AppContainer execution environment.

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
10.0.28000.1836 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5083768
10.0.17763.8644 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5082123
10.0.20348.5020 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5082142
10.0.19044.7184 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5082200
10.0.26100.32690 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5082063
10.0.26200.8246 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5083769
10.0.22631.6936 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5082052
10.0.25398.2274 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5082060
10.0.14393.9060 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5082198
6.2.9200.26026 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5082127
6.3.9600.23132 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5082126

Vulnerabilities 1

Revision history

  1. #3

    Updated an acknowledgement. This is an informational change only.

  2. #2

    Acknowledgement added. This is an informational change only.

  3. #1

    Information published.

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