CVE-2026-50658

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for Mac Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
7.0 High
Published
Jul 14, 2026
Updated
Nov 1, 2026
Reserved
Jun 5, 2026

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Description

Time-of-check time-of-use (toctou) race condition in Microsoft Defender allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.0 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:Cmicrosoft

Weaknesses

  • CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for MacMicrosoft
  • 101.0.0 to before 101.26042.0020Affected

References

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