CVE-2026-70161

.NET Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

HIGH 7.3

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.49 % · percentile 42 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
microsoft
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Description

Improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory ('path traversal') in .NET allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:Cmicrosoft
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · secure@microsoft.com (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Microsoft · .NET 10.0 runtimeaffected 10.0.0 < 10.0.402
Microsoft · .NET 11.0 runtimeaffected 11.0.0 < 11.0.100-rc.2
Microsoft · .NET 9.0 runtimeaffected 9.0.0 < 9.0.319, 9.0.122
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.14affected 17.14.0 < 17.14.42
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2026 version 18.10affected 18.10.0 < 18.10.4

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