CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-69414

7.8 HIGH Published 2026-08-14 Modified 2026-10-28 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2026-08-14
Last modified: 2026-10-28
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected]): 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses: CWE-269, CWE-59

Description

Microsoft is aware of an elevation of privilege in the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine in Microsoft Defender publicly referred to as "ShieldBreak ".

Affected configurations

• microsoft malware protection engine

Weakness · CWE (2)

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-69414 Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/MSNightmare/ShieldBreak github.com

CVE-2026-69414

Description

Affected configurations

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

References