Summary
Impact: Information Disclosure. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Unlikely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could disclose uninitialized heap memory from a privileged process.
Security updates
10.0.17763.9245 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5122876
10.0.20348.5622 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5122882
10.0.19044.7725 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5122878
10.0.22631.7582 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5122880
10.0.14393.9512 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5123099
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 5.5
Windows Task Scheduler Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Use of uninitialized resource in Windows Task Scheduler allows an authorized attacker to disclose information locally.
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2026-72945 Windows Task Scheduler Information Disclosure Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-72945
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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