Local privilege escalation via use-after-free
Published Sep 8, 2026 · Updated Sep 9, 2026
Use-after-free in Windows Push Notifications in affected Windows releases allows local users to elevate privileges on the host. Microsoft has not published the affected function or the sequence that frees and later reuses the notification object. Exploitation requires existing low-privileged local access and no user interaction, and successful exploitation grants higher host privileges.
Summary
What happened
Use-after-free in Windows Push Notifications in affected Windows releases allows local users to elevate privileges on the host. Microsoft has not published the affected function or the sequence that frees and later reuses the notification object. Exploitation requires existing low-privileged local access and no user interaction, and successful exploitation grants higher host privileges.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-62697
- Published
- Sep 8, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 9, 2026
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Windows Server 2025 (Server Core installation)
- Classifications
- CWE-416, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Sep 8, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 9, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=10.0.26100.0 <10.0.26100.33438
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