CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-20872
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-01-13
- Last modified
- 2026-07-30
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-73
Description
External control of file name or path in Windows NTLM allows an unauthorized attacker to perform spoofing over a network.
Affected configurations
• microsoft windows 10 1607 (< 10.0.14393.8783)
• microsoft windows 10 1809 (< 10.0.17763.8276)
• microsoft windows 10 21h2 (< 10.0.19044.6809)
• microsoft windows 10 22h2 (< 10.0.19045.6809)
• microsoft windows 11 23h2 (< 10.0.22631.6491)
• microsoft windows 11 24h2 (< 10.0.26100.7623)
• microsoft windows 11 25h2 (< 10.0.26200.7623)
• microsoft windows server 2008
• microsoft windows server 2008 r2
• microsoft windows server 2012
• microsoft windows server 2012 r2
• microsoft windows server 2016 (< 10.0.14393.8783)
• microsoft windows server 2019 (< 10.0.17763.8276)
• microsoft windows server 2022 (< 10.0.20348.4648)
• microsoft windows server 2022 23h2 (< 10.0.25398.2092)
• microsoft windows server 2025 (< 10.0.26100.32230)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-73 External Control of File Name or Path weakness
References
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-20872 Vendor Advisory
- https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2026-20872-detection-script-spoofing-vulnerability-in-windows-ntlm www.vicarius.io
- https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2026-20872-mitigation-script-spoofing-vulnerability-in-windows-ntlm www.vicarius.io