Summary
Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Unlikely. Customer action: Required.
Details
According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is network (AV:N) and user interaction is required (UI:R). What is the target context of the remote code execution?
This attack requires a user to open a specially crafted file from the attacker to initiate remote code execution.
Security updates
10.0.26300.9711 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5127648
10.0.17763.9376 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126651
10.0.20348.5761 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126655
10.0.19044.7807 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126657
10.0.26100.33650 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126646
10.0.22631.7652 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126653
10.0.28000.3231 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5127646
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.8
Windows libarchive Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Heap-based buffer overflow in Windows Libarchive allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network.
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2026-69985 Windows libarchive Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-69985
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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