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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for Mac Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

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

Announced Source revision 1
Original source ↗

CVE-2026-45647

Primary source · Revision 1

Imported from structured advisory data. Source references identify upstream records or fields; verify affected versions and your deployed configuration.

Security context

Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-45647

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for Mac

Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product

Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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Prerequisites
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Structured affected-version data

Original package identities and version rules from this source.

[
  {
    "vendor": "Microsoft",
    "product": "Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for Mac",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "101.0.0",
        "lessThan": "101.26042.0011",
        "versionType": "custom"
      }
    ]
  }
]
Related CVEs
CVE-2026-45647

Source reference: /cveMetadata/cveId

Publisher severity

medium

Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics

Event
#764 · Revision 1
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