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High MSRC-CVE-2026-27930 1 CVE

Windows GDI Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Published Apr 14, 2026 · Updated Apr 14, 2026

Summary

Impact: Information Disclosure. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.

Details

According to the CVSS metrics, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to some loss of confidentiality (C:L),but lead to no loss of availability (A:N) and integrity (I:N)? What does that mean for this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could view some sensitive information (Confidentiality) but not all resources within the impacted component may be divulged to the attacker. The attacker cannot make changes to disclosed information (Integrity) or limit access to the resource (Availability).

What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability?
This vulnerability may allow an attacker to access small portions of memory from the affected application when it processes a specially crafted Enhanced Metafile (EMF). This issue is an out‑of‑bounds read, any disclosure would be limited to whatever data happens to reside in adjacent memory at the time.

According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?
The user would have to open or preview content that contains the malicious Enhanced Metafile (EMF).

Security updates
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
10.0.28000.1836 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5083768

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