MSRC-CVE-2026-69923 — Windows AI Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Summary

Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. 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
10.0.26100.9711 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5127648
10.0.28000.3231 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5127646
10.0.26100.33650 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126646

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.8

CVE-2026-69923

Windows AI Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Uncontrolled search path element in Windows AI allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

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

Oct 13, 2026

Revision history

2026-10-26 #2
Updated an acknowledgement. This is an informational change only.
2026-10-13 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2026-69923 Windows AI Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-69923
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