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 this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.
According to the CVSS metric, attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation requires a memory allocation to fail at a particular point in the affected operation. An attacker cannot assume that the operation will encounter that failure during normal use.
Security updates
10.0.26100.9974 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5132061
10.0.26100.9911 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5132043
10.0.28000.3501 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5132059
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.0
Windows Brokering File System Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Release of invalid pointer or reference in Windows Brokering File System allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2026-96097 Windows Brokering File System Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-96097
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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