CVE-2026-68896

Microsoft Windows Search Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Sep 8, 2026
Updated: Oct 31, 2026
Reserved: Jul 31, 2026

Description

Absolute path traversal in Microsoft Windows Search Component allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C	microsoft

Weaknesses

CWE-36 Absolute Path Traversal

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Windows 11 version 23H2Microsoft	10.0.22631.0 to before 10.0.22631.7582Affected
Windows 11 Version 23H2Microsoft	10.0.22631.0 to before 10.0.22631.7582Affected
Windows 11 Version 24H2Microsoft	10.0.26100.0 to before 10.0.26100.9445Affected
Windows 11 Version 25H2Microsoft	10.0.26200.0 to before 10.0.26200.9445Affected
Windows 11 version 26H1Microsoft	10.0.28000.0 to before 10.0.28000.2954Affected
Windows Server 2022Microsoft	10.0.20348.0 to before 10.0.20348.5622Affected
Windows Server 2025Microsoft	10.0.26100.0 to before 10.0.26100.33438Affected
Windows Server 2025 (Server Core installation)Microsoft	10.0.26100.0 to before 10.0.26100.33438Affected

References

Microsoft Windows Search Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilityvendor-advisorypatch

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