Summary
Impact: Security Feature Bypass. Microsoft rating: Critical. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Unlikely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What kind of security feature could be bypassed by successfully exploiting this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could bypass the Windows Hello security feature.
Please see Windows Hello | Microsoft Learn for more details.
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
10.0.26100.33438 — 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
10.0.14393.9512 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5123099
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 4.4
Windows Hello Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
Uncontrolled search path element in Windows Hello allows an authorized attacker to bypass a security feature locally.
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2026-72980 Windows Hello Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-72980
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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