High
Security advisory
PowerShell Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-26788
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:38 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
PowerShell Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
osv:CVE-2022-26788
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-26788",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
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"title": "CVE-2022-26788",
"summary": "PowerShell Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2022-26788",
"products": [],
"severity": "high",
"structured": {
"id": "CVE-2022-26788",
"aliases": [
"BIT-powershell-2022-26788",
"CVE-2022-26788",
"GHSA-q7x5-x7rr-2859"
],
"metrics": [
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"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
}
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:31.589178879Z",
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 432843,
"published_at": "2022-04-15T19:15:12.75+00:00"
}