MSRC-CVE-2026-68842 — Windows MIDI Service Module Information Disclosure Vulnerability

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?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could view heap memory from a privileged process running on the server.

Security updates
10.0.26200.9445 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5124008
10.0.28000.2954 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5124012

Vulnerabilities 1

Medium 5.5

CVE-2026-68842

Windows MIDI Service Module Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Exposure of sensitive system information to an unauthorized control sphere in Windows MIDI Service Module allows an authorized attacker to disclose information locally.

Microsoft Windows 11 Version 24H2 Windows 11 Version 25H2 Windows 11 version 26H1 Windows

Sep 8, 2026

Revision history

2026-09-08 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2026-68842 Windows MIDI Service Module Information Disclosure Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-68842
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