CVE-2026-77897Important
Microsoft Power Automate Desktop Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Assessment
Relative path traversal in Power Automate allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
- Severity
- Important
- CVSS base score
- 7.0CVSS:3.1/
AV:L/ AC:H/ 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 19.3% 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
- Power Automate
- Weakness
- CWE-23: Relative Path Traversal
- 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
Microsoft Dynamics2 affected products
- Power Automate agent for virtual desktops
- Power Automate for Desktop