- CVE
- CVE-2026-121681
- Severity
- Important
- 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:U/RL:O/RC:C
- Impact
- Elevation of Privilege
- Exploitation detected
- No known exploitation (MSRC assessment)
- Publicly disclosed
- No (MSRC assessment)
- Exploitability
- Exploitation Less Likely
- Component
- Microsoft Trace Data Helper
- Weakness
- CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow
- Issued by
- Microsoft
- Customer action
- Required: follow the MSRC remediation guidance
- Affected products
- Windows 11 Version 24H2 for ARM64-based Systems, Windows 11 Version 24H2 for x64-based Systems, Windows 11 Version 25H2 for ARM64-based Systems, Windows 11 Version 25H2 for x64-based Systems, Windows 11 Version 26H1 for ARM64-based Systems, Windows 11 version 26H1 for x64-based Systems, Windows 11 Version 26H2 for ARM64-based Systems, Windows 11 Version 26H2 for x64-based Systems, Windows Server 2025, Windows Server 2025 (Server Core installation)
- Updates that fix it
- KB5127646: Windows 11 Version 26H1 for ARM64-based Systems, Windows 11 version 26H1 for x64-based Systems (restart required); KB5127648: Windows 11 Version 24H2 for ARM64-based Systems, Windows 11 Version 24H2 for x64-based Systems, Windows 11 Version 25H2 for ARM64-based Systems, Windows 11 Version 25H2 for x64-based Systems, Windows 11 Version 26H2 for ARM64-based Systems, Windows 11 Version 26H2 for x64-based Systems (restart required); KB5131080: Windows Server 2025, Windows Server 2025 (Server Core installation) (restart required)
- CISA KEV
- Not listed in the collected catalog
- EPSS
- No EPSS score collected
- Public detection template
- No Nuclei template listed
- Published
- 10 Nov 2026 08:00 UTC
- Last revised
- 10 Nov 2026 08:00 UTC
- Revision note
- Information published.