CVE-2026-69414: Microsoft Microsoft Malware Protection Engine

Microsoft Defender Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVSS 7.8 HighEPSS 0.014 · 72nd percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: microsoft) at 14 Aug 2026, 21:50 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	Microsoft Malware Protection Engine	affected 1.1.0.0 to before 1.1.26080.3 custom

Machine-written summary

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

Microsoft Malware Protection Engine versions 1.1.0.0 before 1.1.26080.3 contain an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Microsoft Defender. The source gives few details on how the flaw is reached or exploited, so the required attacker access is not stated. Upgrade the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine to version 1.1.26080.3 or later.

Written 12 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

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

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.014, the 72nd percentile, on 14 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

14 Aug 2026, 21:50 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List

Sources

References from the CNA

msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-69414 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.