MSRC-CVE-2026-96188 — Microsoft PowerToys Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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 the vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain administrator privileges.

Security updates
0.101.2632.0 — https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/releases/tag/v0.101.2632.0

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.3

CVE-2026-96188

Microsoft PowerToys Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

External control of system or configuration setting in Microsoft PowerToys allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

Microsoft Microsoft PowerToys

Oct 13, 2026

Revision history

2026-10-13 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2026-96188 Microsoft PowerToys Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-96188
Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss