CVE-2026-49163: Microsoft Application Insights Profiler

Application Insights Profiler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVSS 8.8 HighEPSS 0.010 · 64th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: microsoft) at 6 Aug 2026, 22:37 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Microsoft	Application Insights Profiler	affected -

Identifiers

CVE-2026-49163

CNA

microsoft

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-22

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Microsoft Application Insights Profiler is affected by a path traversal vulnerability that allows privilege elevation. An authorized attacker with network access can exploit it to gain higher privileges. The source gives few details on affected versions or fixes, and no fix is listed.

Written 12 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
8.8	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C	CNA (microsoft)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.010, the 64th percentile, on 14 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

6 Aug 2026, 22:37 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List

Sources

References from the CNA

msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-49163 vendor-advisorypatch

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.