MSRC-CVE-2026-69536 — Remote Desktop Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Summary

Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.

Details

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
10.0.22631.7582 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5122880
10.0.28000.2954 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5124012

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.1

CVE-2026-69536

Remote Desktop Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Use after free in Windows Remote Desktop Services allows an authorized attacker to execute code over a network.

Microsoft Windows Server 2025 Windows Server 2025 (Server Core installation) Windows 11 Version 24H2 Windows

Sep 8, 2026

Revision history

2026-10-06 #2
Updated an acknowledgement. This is an informational change only.
2026-09-08 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2026-69536 Remote Desktop Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-69536
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