Aug 2026: .NET Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2026-62871 Published on August 11, 2026

.NET Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Out-of-bounds write in .NET allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally.

Vendor Advisory NVD

Weakness Types

What is a Memory Corruption Vulnerability?

The software writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Typically, this can result in corruption of data, a crash, or code execution. The software may modify an index or perform pointer arithmetic that references a memory location that is outside of the boundaries of the buffer. A subsequent write operation then produces undefined or unexpected results.

CVE-2026-62871 has been classified to as a Memory Corruption vulnerability or weakness.

Heap-based Buffer Overflow

A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().


Products Associated with CVE-2026-62871

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Affected Versions

Microsoft .NET 8.0: Microsoft .NET 9.0: Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.14: Microsoft Visual Studio 2026 version 18.8: