Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Unlikely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
An attacker could use this vulnerability to elevate privileges from Medium Integrity Level to Local Service.
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.
Security updates
10.0.17763.9121 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5120238
10.0.20348.5499 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5120242
10.0.20348.5440 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5120229
10.0.19044.7663 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5120249
10.0.26100.33296 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5120233
10.0.26100.33222 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5120228
10.0.26200.9168 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5121003
10.0.26200.9106 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5120994
10.0.22631.7517 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5120240
10.0.28000.2704 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5121000
10.0.14393.9418 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5120418
6.2.9200.26280 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5120386
6.3.9600.23338 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5120385
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.0
Windows Telephony Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Concurrent execution using shared resource with improper synchronization ('race condition') in Windows Telephony Service allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2026-62729 Windows Telephony Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-62729
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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