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High MSRC-CVE-2026-32170 1 CVE

Windows Rich Text Edit Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published May 12, 2026 · Updated May 15, 2026 · Revision 2

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, 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.

What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain administrator privileges.

According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R) and privileges required is Low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
An authorized attacker must send a victim a malicious and specially crafted file and convince them to open it.

According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R) and privileges required is low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
An authorized attacker must send the user a malicious file and convince the user to open it.

Security updates
10.0.17763.8755 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5087538
10.0.20348.5139 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5087545
10.0.20348.5074 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5087424
10.0.19044.7291 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5087544
10.0.19045.7417 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5094127
10.0.26100.32860 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5087539
10.0.26100.32772 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5087423
10.0.26200.8457 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5089549
10.0.26200.8390 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5089466
10.0.22631.7079 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5087420
10.0.22631.7219 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5093998
10.0.25398.2330 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5087541
10.0.28000.2113 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5089548
10.0.14393.9140 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5087537
6.2.9200.26079 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5087470
6.3.9600.23181 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5087471

Vulnerabilities 1

Revision history

  1. #2

    Updated Hotpatch links. This is in informational change only.

  2. #1

    Information published.

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