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CVE-2026-85843 Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Type: advisorySources: Microsoft security updates

An authorized attacker can exploit use of an uninitialized resource in Windows BITS to elevate privileges locally.

Products
Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS)
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
Not specified
CVEs
CVE-2026-85843
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
4 Nov 2026, 15:30 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2026-85843 Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

official-microsoft-security-updates · Original source

Published 13 Oct 2026, 14:00 UTC

An authorized attacker can exploit use of an uninitialized resource in Windows BITS to elevate privileges locally.

Use of uninitialized resource in Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS)

Fixed versions: Not specified

Prerequisites: an authorized attacker

Complete source record
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