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CVE-2026-69299 Microsoft COM for Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Type: advisorySources: Microsoft security updates
An authorized attacker can exploit a use-after-free in Microsoft COM for Windows to elevate privileges locally.
- Products
- Microsoft COM for Windows
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-69299
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 7 Nov 2026, 06:17 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
CVE-2026-69299 Microsoft COM for Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
official-microsoft-security-updates · Original sourcePublished 8 Sept 2026, 14:00 UTC
An authorized attacker can exploit a use-after-free in Microsoft COM for Windows to elevate privileges locally.
Use after free in Microsoft COM for Windows allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Microsoft COM for Windows
Fixed versions: Not specified
Prerequisites: an authorized attacker
Complete source record
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