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CVE-2026-70582 Windows Management Instrumentation Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Type: advisorySources: Microsoft security updates
A race condition in Windows Management Instrumentation allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
- Products
- Windows Management Instrumentation
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-70582
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 7 Nov 2026, 01:33 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
CVE-2026-70582 Windows Management Instrumentation Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
official-microsoft-security-updates · Original sourcePublished 8 Sept 2026, 14:00 UTC
A race condition in Windows Management Instrumentation allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Concurrent execution using shared resource with improper synchronization ('race condition') in Windows Management Instrumentation allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Windows Management Instrumentation
Fixed versions: Not specified
Prerequisites: an authorized attacker
Complete source record
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