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 this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.
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
10.0.26100.33438 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5122871
10.0.26200.9445 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5124008
10.0.28000.2954 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5124012
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.0
Audio Video Control Transport Protocol Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Use after free in Audio Video Control Transport Protocol 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-2026-69401 Audio Video Control Transport Protocol Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-69401
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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