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.
Security updates
10.0.26100.32995 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5094125
10.0.26200.8655 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5094126
10.0.28000.2269 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5095051
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.8
Windows Hotpatch Monitoring Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Out-of-bounds write in Windows Hotpatch Monitoring Service allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Revision history
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#2
Updated an acknowledgement. This is an informational change only.
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2026-42910 Windows Hotpatch Monitoring Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-42910
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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