CVE-2026-42829High· 7.8▾ TwilightImproper access control in Windows Administrator Protection allows an authorized attacker to bypass a security feature locally.
▾ Twilight zone — High severity, or a signal on a lesser flaw
impact 42.9 · 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
0.3%
Improper access control in Windows Administrator Protection allows an authorized attacker to bypass a security feature locally.
windows_11_version_24h2 >= 10.0.26100.0 < 10.0.26100.8655windows_11_version_25h2 >= 10.0.26200.0 < 10.0.26200.8655windows_11_version_26h1 >= 10.0.28000.0 < 10.0.28000.2269Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.
Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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