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.
Security updates
10.0.17763.9245 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5122876
10.0.20348.5622 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5122882
10.0.26100.33438 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5122871
10.0.14393.9512 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5123099
6.2.9200.26349 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5123065
6.3.9600.23398 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5123066
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.8
Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Improper encoding or escaping of output in Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Revision history
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2026-69821 Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-69821
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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