CVE-2026-69805Important
.NET Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Assessment
External control of file name or path in .NET allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
- Severity
- Important
- CVSS base score
- 7.5CVSS:3.1/
AV:N/ AC:H/ PR:N/ UI:R/ S:U/ C:H/ I:H/ A:H/ E:U/ RL:O/ RC:C - Impact
- Elevation of Privilege
- EPSS, next 30 days
- 0.6%Higher than 45.2% 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
- .NET
- Weakness
- CWE-73: External Control of File Name or Path
- Issued by
- Microsoft
- Published
- 8 Sep 2026 · September 2026
- Last revised
- 8 Sep 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
Developer Tools, Open Source Software3 affected products
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.14
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2026 version 18.9
- Microsoft.Diagnostics.Runtime