CVE-2026-20928Medium· 4.6▾ SunlitImproper removal of sensitive information before storage or transfer in Windows Recovery Environment Agent allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature with a physical attack.
▾ Sunlit zone — Low / medium · no exploitation signal
impact 25.3 · likelihood 0.1 · exploitation 0
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Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization from CISA's ADP record at CVE.org: whether exploitation is observed, whether an attack can be automated, and how much of the system is at stake. The CVSS score shown above comes from the assigning CNA record, not NVD.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via CVEORG
Last analysed / modified upstream
0.4%
Improper removal of sensitive information before storage or transfer in Windows Recovery Environment Agent allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature with a physical attack.
windows_10_version_1607 >= 10.0.14393.0 < 10.0.14393.9060windows_10_version_1809 >= 10.0.17763.0 < 10.0.17763.8644windows_10_version_21h2 >= 10.0.19044.0 < 10.0.19044.7184windows_10_version_22h2 >= 10.0.19045.0 < 10.0.19045.7184windows_11_version_22h3 >= 10.0.22631.0 < 10.0.22631.6936windows_11_version_23h2 >= 10.0.22631.0 < 10.0.22631.6936windows_11_version_24h2 >= 10.0.26100.0 < 10.0.26100.8246windows_11_version_25h2 >= 10.0.26200.0 < 10.0.26200.8246windows_11_version_26h1 >= 10.0.28000.0 < 10.0.28000.1836windows_server_2016 >= 10.0.14393.0 < 10.0.14393.9060windows_server_2016_server_core_installation >= 10.0.14393.0 < 10.0.14393.9060windows_server_2019 >= 10.0.17763.0 < 10.0.17763.8644windows_server_2019_server_core_installation >= 10.0.17763.0 < 10.0.17763.8644windows_server_2022 >= 10.0.20348.0 < 10.0.20348.5020windows_server_2022_23h2_edition_server_core_installation >= 10.0.25398.0 < 10.0.25398.2274windows_server_2025 >= 10.0.26100.0 < 10.0.26100.32690windows_server_2025_server_core_installation >= 10.0.26100.0 < 10.0.26100.32690Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.
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