Unrated
CVE-2026-77894 Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Type: advisorySources: Microsoft security updates
A race condition in Windows Installer may allow an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
- Products
- Windows Installer
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-77894
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 7 Nov 2026, 03:16 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
CVE-2026-77894 Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
official-microsoft-security-updates · Original sourcePublished 8 Sept 2026, 14:00 UTC
A race condition in Windows Installer may allow an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Concurrent execution using shared resource with improper synchronization ('race condition') in Windows Installer allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Windows Installer
Fixed versions: Not specified
Prerequisites: an authorized attacker
Complete source record
{
"id": "2c0525a085dfea3dcd72089f85ed5b76f63674922296fcd2989b784aafcef9bb",
"url": "https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-77894",
"method": "llm",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "CVE-2026-77894 Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability",
"summary": "A race condition in Windows Installer may allow an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.",
"evidence": "Concurrent execution using shared resource with improper synchronization ('race condition') in Windows Installer allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.",
"products": [
{
"name": {
"value": "Windows Installer",
"evidence": "in Windows Installer"
},
"prerequisites": [
{
"value": "an authorized attacker",
"evidence": "allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally"
}
],
"fixed_versions": [],
"affected_versions": []
}
],
"severity": "unknown",
"fixed_cves": [],
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2026-77894",
"evidence": "CVE-2026-77894 Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability"
}
],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": null
},
"source_id": "official-microsoft-security-updates",
"document_id": 26686,
"published_at": "2026-09-08T14:00:00+00:00"
}