CVE-2026-48581Important
Surface Broker SDMA Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Assessment
Insufficient granularity of access control in Microsoft Surface allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
- Severity
- Important
- CVSS base score
- 7.8CVSS: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
- EPSS, next 30 days
- 0.3%Higher than 20.1% of scored CVEs · FIRST model run 26 Sep 2026 · about EPSS
- Exploitability
- Exploitation Less Likely
- Publicly disclosed
- No
- Customer action
- Required: apply the update
- Component
- Microsoft Surface
- Weakness
- CWE-1220: Insufficient Granularity of Access Control
- Issued by
- Microsoft
- Published
- 14 Jul 2026 · July 2026
- Last revised
- 14 Jul 2026
Updates that fix it
0 KBsNo KB listed
MSRC lists no downloadable update, which usually means a service-side fix or a release-notes update. Check the MSRC advisory.
Affected products
Device13 affected products
- Microsoft Surface Go 2
- Microsoft Surface Go 3
- Microsoft Surface Hub
- Microsoft Surface Hub 2S
- Microsoft Surface Hub 3
- Microsoft Surface Laptop Go
- Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2
- Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 3
- Microsoft Surface Pro 7+
- Microsoft Surface Pro 8
- Surface Laptop 4 with AMD Processor
- Surface Laptop 4 with Intel Processor
- Surface Windows Dev Kit