CVE-2026-69414
Microsoft is aware of an elevation of privilege in the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine in Microsoft Defender publicly referred to as "ShieldBreak ". We are working to provide a high quality security update that addresses this vulnerability. We will provide information in this CVE when the update is available.
Scoring
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS base score
- 7.8
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
- EPSS probability
- 0.56%
- CWE
- CWE-284
- Published
- 2026-08-14
- Last modified
- 2026-09-16
Affected products
- Microsoft Microsoft Malware Protection Engine
- Microsoft Microsoft Malware Protection Engine
Weakness type
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