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 the vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute code in the security context of the “NT AUTHORITY\Network Service” account.
Security updates
10.0.26300.9711 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5127648
10.0.26100.33650 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126646
10.0.28000.3231 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5127646
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.8
Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Improper access control in Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2026-83568 Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-83568
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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