Summary
Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
An attacker could host a malicious server and convince a user to connect to it from an affected client. When the client processes the server's response, the attacker could execute code on the client system. User interaction is required.
Security updates
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
10.0.26200.9711 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5127648
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
Microsoft OpenSSH for Windows Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Relative path traversal in OpenSSH for Windows allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network.
Revision history
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#2
Updated an acknowledgement. This is an informational change only.
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2026-83923 Microsoft OpenSSH for Windows Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-83923
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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