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High MSRC-CVE-2026-85892 1 CVE

Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published Sep 11, 2026 · Updated Sep 11, 2026

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 the vulnerability?
An attacker could use this vulnerability to elevate privileges from a Low Integrity Level in a contained ("sandboxed") execution environment to a Medium Integrity Level. Please refer to AppContainer isolation and Mandatory Integrity Control for more information.

According to the CVSS metric, a successful exploitation could lead to a scope change (S:C). What does this mean for this vulnerability?
This vulnerability could lead to a browser sandbox escape.

According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?
The user must visit the attacker‑controlled webpage, and perform the two tap gestures that cause autofill to activate.

What is the version information for this release?
152.0.4191.66: 152.0.4191.66, 09/04/2026: 09/04/2026, 152.0.7977.83: 152.0.7977.83

Security updates
152.0.4191.66 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/DeployEdge/microsoft-edge-relnotes-security

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.8

    Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

    Concurrent execution using shared resource with improper synchronization ('race condition') in Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

Revision history

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    Information published.

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