Assessment
Unintended proxy or intermediary ('confused deputy') in Servicing Stack Updates allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
- Severity
- Important
- CVSS base score
- 7.8
- Impact
- Elevation of Privilege
- Exploitation detected
- No known exploitation (MSRC assessment)
- Exploitability
- Exploitation More Likely
- Publicly disclosed
- No (MSRC assessment)
- EPSS · 30-day forecast
- No EPSS score collected
- Customer action
- Required: follow the MSRC remediation guidance
More details
- 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
- Public detection template
- No Nuclei template is listed in the current collected catalog
- Component
- Servicing Stack Updates
- Weakness
- CWE-441: Unintended Proxy or Intermediary ('Confused Deputy')
- Issued by
- Microsoft
- Last revised
- 10 Nov 2026
CVSS 3.1 base metricsRed raises the risk · green lowers it
- Attack vector
- LocalAV:L
- Attack complexity
- LowAC:L
- Privileges required
- LowPR:L
- User interaction
- NoneUI:N
- Scope
- UnchangedS:U
- Confidentiality
- HighC:H
- Integrity
- HighI:H
- Availability
- HighA:H
Updates that fix it
5 KBs| KB | Type | Restart | Applies to | Other CVEs |
| KB5131083 |
Security Update | Required | Windows 10 Version 1607 for 32-bit Systems, Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems, Windows Server 2016 and 1 more | All CVEs in KB5131083 |
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| KB5131085 |
Security Update | Required | Windows 10 Version 1809 for 32-bit Systems, Windows 10 Version 1809 for x64-based Systems, Windows Server 2019 and 1 more | All CVEs in KB5131085 |
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| KB5131087 |
Security Update | Required | Windows 11 Version 23H2 for ARM64-based Systems, Windows 11 Version 23H2 for x64-based Systems | All CVEs in KB5131087 |
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| KB5131090 |
Security Update | Required | Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2022 (Server Core installation) | All CVEs in KB5131090 |
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| KB5131096 |
Security Update | Required | Windows 10 Version 21H2 for 32-bit Systems, Windows 10 Version 21H2 for ARM64-based Systems, Windows 10 Version 21H2 for x64-based Systems and 3 more | All CVEs in KB5131096 |
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