MSRC-CVE-2026-58635 — Windows Narrator Braille Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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 the vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute code in the security context of the “NT AUTHORITY\Network Service” account.

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

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.8

CVE-2026-58635 Public exploit

Windows Narrator Braille Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Improper neutralization of special elements used in a command ('command injection') in Windows Narrator Braille allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation) Windows 10 Version 1809 Windows

Jul 14, 2026

Revision history

2026-07-14 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2026-58635 Windows Narrator Braille Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-58635
Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss