CVE-2026-68883

Microsoft SQL Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

At a glance

Severity
HIGH 8.5
EPSS
EPSS 0.56 % · percentile 46 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
microsoft
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in SQL Server allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:Cmicrosoft
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · secure@microsoft.com (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Microsoft · Microsoft SQL Server 2017 (GDR)affected 14.0.0 < 14.0.2140.2
Microsoft · Microsoft SQL Server 2017 for x64-based Systems (CU31)affected 14.0.3006.16 < 14.0.3560.2
Microsoft · Microsoft SQL Server 2019 (GDR)affected 15.0.0 < 15.0.2200.2
Microsoft · Microsoft SQL Server 2019 for x64-based Systems (CU32)affected 15.0.4003.23 < 15.0.4500.2
Microsoft · Microsoft SQL Server 2022 (GDR)affected 16.0.0 < 16.0.1210.3
Microsoft · Microsoft SQL Server 2022 for x64-based Systems (CU27)affected 16.0.4003.1 < 16.0.4305.5
Microsoft · Microsoft SQL Server 2025 (CU8)affected -
Microsoft · Microsoft SQL Server 2025 for x64-based Systems (CU9)affected 17.0.4006.2 < 17.0.5015.4
Microsoft · Microsoft SQL Server 2025 for x64-based Systems (GDR)affected 17.0.1050.2 < 17.0.1145.4

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD