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.
Security updates
6.2.9200.26434 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126835
10.0.14393.9612 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126868
10.0.17763.9376 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126651
10.0.19044.7807 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126657
10.0.20348.5761 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126655
10.0.22631.7652 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126653
10.0.26100.9711 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5127648
10.0.26100.33650 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126646
10.0.28000.3231 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5127646
6.3.9600.23470 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126836
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.0
Microsoft Bluetooth Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Integer underflow (wrap or wraparound) in Microsoft Bluetooth Driver allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over an adjacent 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-2026-96844 Microsoft Bluetooth Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-96844
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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