# Windows Error Reporting Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE record · `CVE-2026-69896`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2026-69896`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 7.0 High
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** microsoft
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-416](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/416.html)
- **Tags:** [Memory corruption](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/memory-corruption.md)
- **Technologies:** [Microsoft Windows 11 Version 24H2](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/microsoft-windows-11-version-24h2.md) · [Microsoft Windows 11 Version 25H2](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/microsoft-windows-11-version-25h2.md) · [Microsoft Windows 11 version 26H1](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/microsoft-windows-11-version-26h1.md) · [Microsoft Windows Server 2025](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/microsoft-windows-server-2025.md) · [Microsoft Windows Server 2025 (Server Core installation)](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/microsoft-windows-server-2025-server-core-installation.md)
- **Published:** 8 Sept 2026
- **Updated:** 10 Nov 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: microsoft) at 8 Sept 2026, 17:12 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: Microsoft. Product: Windows 11 Version 24H2.
  - affected: `10.0.26100.0 to before 10.0.26100.9445` (custom)
- Vendor: Microsoft. Product: Windows 11 Version 25H2.
  - affected: `10.0.26200.0 to before 10.0.26200.9445` (custom)
- Vendor: Microsoft. Product: Windows 11 version 26H1.
  - affected: `10.0.28000.0 to before 10.0.28000.2954` (custom)
- Vendor: Microsoft. Product: Windows Server 2025.
  - affected: `10.0.26100.0 to before 10.0.26100.33438` (custom)
- Vendor: Microsoft. Product: Windows Server 2025 (Server Core installation).
  - affected: `10.0.26100.0 to before 10.0.26100.33438` (custom)

## Machine-written summary

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

> Microsoft Windows 11 (versions 24H2, 25H2 and 26H1) and Windows Server 2025 (including Server Core installations) are affected, with fixes listed as 10.0.26100.9445 for 24H2, 10.0.26200.9445 for 25H2, 10.0.28000.2954 for 26H1, and 10.0.26100.33438 for Server 2025. A use-after-free flaw in Windows Error Reporting lets an attacker who already has authorized local access elevate their privileges. The source gives few details. Upgrade to the fixed build for your version.

Written 11 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

- 7.0 High, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C`, from CNA (microsoft)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0026, the 18th percentile, on 11 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

- 8 Sept 2026, 17:12 UTC: [Confirmed by the CVE List](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-69896)
- 31 Oct 2026, 16:20 UTC: First seen by agentprime

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2026-69896](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-69896)
- [NVD: CVE-2026-69896](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-69896)

### References from the CNA

- <https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-69896> (vendor-advisory, patch)

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.

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