CVE-2026-27924
Desktop Window Manager Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
At a glance
- Severity
- HIGH 7.8
- EPSS
- EPSS 0.29 % · percentile 21 (2026-10-27)
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- microsoft
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Description
Use after free in Desktop Window Manager allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C | microsoft |
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | NVD · secure@microsoft.com (Secondary) |
Weaknesses (CWE)
European references
CERT-FR advisories
Affected configurations (NVD CPE)
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_21h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:* < 10.0.19044.7184cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_21h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:x64:* < 10.0.19044.7184cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_21h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:x86:* < 10.0.19044.7184cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_22h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:* < 10.0.19045.7184cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_22h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:x64:* < 10.0.19045.7184cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_22h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:x86:* < 10.0.19045.7184cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_23h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:* < 10.0.22631.6936cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_23h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:x64:* < 10.0.22631.6936cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2022:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 10.0.20348.5020cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2022_23h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 10.0.25398.2274
Affected products
References
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