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?
For an attacker to exploit this vulnerability, they would need to have knowledge of a specific operation that triggers a memory allocation failure, specifically a use after free.
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.
There are multiple update packages available for some of the affected software. Do I need to install all the updates listed in the Security Updates table for the software?
Yes. Customers should apply all updates offered for the software installed on their systems.
Security updates
153.0.4234.46 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/DeployEdge/microsoft-edge-relnotes-security
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.1
Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Use after free in Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Revision history
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#2
Added Edge software to the Security Updates table. Customers that are running supported version of Edge are encouraged to update to the indicated version to be protected from this vulnerability.
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2026-88097 Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-88097
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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