CVE-2026-72948
Relative path traversal in Windows DNS allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Scoring
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS base score
- 6.7
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
- EPSS probability
- 0.37%
- CWE
- CWE-23
- Published
- 2026-09-08
- Last modified
- 2026-09-10
Affected products
- Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1607
- Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1809
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (Server Core installation)
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Core installation)
- Microsoft Windows Server 2016
- Microsoft Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation)
Weakness type
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