Summary
Impact: Information Disclosure. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Unlikely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could leak the address of a medium integrity process to a lower integrity caller process.
Security updates
10.0.17763.9020 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5099538
10.0.20348.5386 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5099540
10.0.19044.7548 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5099539
10.0.26100.33158 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5099536
10.0.26200.8875 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5101650
10.0.28000.2525 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5101649
10.0.14393.9339 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5099535
6.2.9200.26226 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5099445
6.3.9600.23291 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5099444
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 5.5
Windows File Explorer Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor in Windows File Explorer allows an authorized attacker to disclose information locally.
Revision history
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2026-50456 Windows File Explorer Information Disclosure Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-50456
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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