Microsoft PowerToys Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (Microsoft Microsoft PowerToys)

CVE-2026-96188
HIGH 7.3

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.38 % · percentile 32 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
microsoft
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Description

External control of system or configuration setting in Microsoft PowerToys allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-15 — External Control of System or Configuration Setting

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 · Microsoft PowerToysaffected 0.1 < 0.101.2632.0

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