Recorded 18 Oct 2026 at 14:54 UTC. This is what ChangeIntel recorded, including the title, summary, facts and links. It is not a statement of the source's current position. See the latest record.
Windows Management Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Use after free in Windows Management Services allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
What it said
- CVE
- CVE-2026-87691
- 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
- Not reported by MSRC
- Publicly disclosed
- No
- Exploitability
- Exploitation Less Likely
- Component
- Windows Management Services
- Weakness
- CWE-416: Use After Free
- Issued by
- Microsoft
- Customer action
- Required: apply the update
- Affected products
- Windows 11 Version 23H2 for ARM64-based Systems, Windows 11 Version 23H2 for x64-based Systems, 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
- KB5126646: Windows Server 2025, Windows Server 2025 (Server Core installation) (restart required); KB5126653: Windows 11 Version 23H2 for ARM64-based Systems, Windows 11 Version 23H2 for x64-based Systems (restart required); 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)
- CISA KEV
- Not listed in the collected catalog
- EPSS
- 0.2%; scored 18 Oct 2026
- Public exploit code
- No Nuclei template listed
- Published
- 13 Oct 2026 07:00 UTC
- Last revised
- 13 Oct 2026 07:00 UTC
- Revision note
- Information published.
Recorded links
Source evidence when recorded
- Microsoft security releases
- Complete at observationRead 18 Oct 2026 at 14:53 UTC
- CISA KEV
- Complete at observationRead 18 Oct 2026 at 14:53 UTC
- FIRST EPSS
- Complete at observationRead 18 Oct 2026 at 14:53 UTC
- Public exploit code
- Complete at observationRead 18 Oct 2026 at 14:53 UTC
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What changed
First observed 14 Oct 2026- 18 Oct 2026 · 14:54:30 UTC EPSS0.2%; scored 16 Oct 2026 → 0.2%; scored 18 Oct 2026
- 18 Oct 2026 · 14:54:30 UTC Link: October 2026/security?release=2026-Oct#cves
- 16 Oct 2026 · 16:13:25 UTC EPSS0.2%; scored 15 Oct 2026 → 0.2%; scored 16 Oct 2026
- 15 Oct 2026 · 21:30:54 UTC EPSS0.2%; scored 14 Oct 2026 → 0.2%; scored 15 Oct 2026
- 15 Oct 2026 · 01:07:54 UTC EPSSNot scored → 0.2%; scored 14 Oct 2026
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