Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to win a race condition.
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
10.0.26200.9711 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5127648
10.0.28000.3231 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5127646
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.0
Windows MIDI Service Module Elevation of Privileges Vulnerability
Use after free in Windows MIDI Service Module allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2026-83751 Windows MIDI Service Module Elevation of Privileges Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-83751
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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