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CVE-2026-69784· NVD / CVE Program· CNA microsoft

Windows Hello Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 35/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.33% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: Windows 10 Version 21H2 for 32-bit Systems 10.0.19044.7725; Windows 10 Version 21H2 for ARM64-based Systems 10.0.19044.7725; Windows 10 Version 21H2 for x64-based Systems 10.0.19044.7725.
  • Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Windows 10 Version 21H2 for 32-bit Systems 10.0.19044.7725; Windows 10 Version 21H2 for ARM64-based Systems 10.0.19044.7725; Windows 10 Version 21H2 for x64-based Systems 10.0.19044.7725 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Use after free in Windows Hello allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

HighCVSS 8.8 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Sep 8, 2026
Updated
Oct 8, 2026
EPSS
0.3% · 25th percentile

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Action score

35

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
35 / 40 · 8.8 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.3%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
—
CNA · microsoft
8.8
NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Affected systems

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VendorProduct
microsoftwindows 10 21h2
microsoftwindows 10 22h2
microsoftwindows 11 23h2
microsoftwindows 11 24h2
microsoftwindows 11 25h2
microsoftwindows 11 26h1

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • microsoft windows 10 21h2before 10.0.19044.7725
  • microsoft windows 10 22h2before 10.0.19045.7725
  • microsoft windows 11 23h2before 10.0.22631.7582
  • microsoft windows 11 24h2before 10.0.26100.9445
  • microsoft windows 11 25h2before 10.0.26200.9445
  • microsoft windows 11 26h1before 10.0.28000.2954

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (microsoft). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • Microsoft Windows 10 Version 21H2

    • 10.0.19044.0 and later · before 10.0.19044.7725affected

  • Microsoft Windows 10 Version 22H2

    • 10.0.19045.0 and later · before 10.0.19045.7725affected

  • Microsoft Windows 11 version 23H2

    • 10.0.22631.0 and later · before 10.0.22631.7582affected

  • Microsoft Windows 11 Version 23H2

    • 10.0.22631.0 and later · before 10.0.22631.7582affected

  • Microsoft Windows 11 Version 24H2

    • 10.0.26100.0 and later · before 10.0.26100.9445affected

  • Microsoft Windows 11 Version 25H2

    • 10.0.26200.0 and later · before 10.0.26200.9445affected

  • Microsoft Windows 11 version 26H1

    • 10.0.28000.0 and later · before 10.0.28000.2954affected

Same product

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Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
Windows 10 Version 21H2 for 32-bit Systems10.0.19044.7725 · KB5122878Microsoft (MSRC)
Windows 10 Version 21H2 for ARM64-based Systems10.0.19044.7725 · KB5122878Microsoft (MSRC)
Windows 10 Version 21H2 for x64-based Systems10.0.19044.7725 · KB5122878Microsoft (MSRC)
Windows 10 Version 22H2 for 32-bit Systems10.0.19045.7725 · KB5122878Microsoft (MSRC)
Windows 10 Version 22H2 for ARM64-based Systems10.0.19045.7725 · KB5122878Microsoft (MSRC)
Windows 10 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems10.0.19045.7725 · KB5122878Microsoft (MSRC)
Windows 11 Version 23H2 for ARM64-based Systems10.0.22631.7582 · KB5122880Microsoft (MSRC)
Windows 11 Version 23H2 for x64-based Systems10.0.22631.7582 · KB5122880Microsoft (MSRC)
Windows 11 Version 24H2 for ARM64-based Systems10.0.26100.9445 · KB5124008Microsoft (MSRC)
Windows 11 Version 24H2 for x64-based Systems10.0.26100.9445 · KB5124008Microsoft (MSRC)
Windows 11 Version 25H2 for ARM64-based Systems10.0.26200.9445 · KB5124008Microsoft (MSRC)
Windows 11 Version 25H2 for x64-based Systems10.0.26200.9445 · KB5124008Microsoft (MSRC)
Windows 11 Version 26H1 for ARM64-based Systems10.0.28000.2954 · KB5124012Microsoft (MSRC)
Windows 11 version 26H1 for x64-based Systems10.0.28000.2954 · KB5124012Microsoft (MSRC)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

  • CVE-2026-5862656 days apartWindows Remote Desktop Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
    35Monitor
  • CVE-2026-839970 days apartWindows Message Queuing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
    32Monitor
  • CVE-2026-20871238 days apartDesktop Window Manager Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
    32Monitor
  • CVE-2026-626970 days apartWindows Push Notifications Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
    31Monitor
  • CVE-2026-698640 days apartWindows Hello Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
    31Monitor
  • CVE-2026-6288828 days apartWindows DWM Core Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
    31Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)

Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.

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Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted

Impact can extend beyond the vulnerable component (scope changes).

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
High
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-416 · Use After Free

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd-secondary

Root cause

After a memory region is freed, another reference pointing to it is still used. By then, the same region may have been allocated for different data.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-416 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

c
free(dev->buf);/* ... another thread is still running ... */process(dev->buf);

Fixed

c
lock(&dev->lock);free(dev->buf);dev->buf = NULL;unlock(&dev->lock);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.

Change log

  1. Fix✗ → ✓

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References

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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