Oct 2026: Servicing Stack Updates Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2026-96939 Published on October 13, 2026
Servicing Stack Updates Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Time-of-check time-of-use (toctou) race condition in Servicing Stack Updates allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Weakness Type
What is a TOCTTOU Vulnerability?
The software checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource's state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check. This can cause the software to perform invalid actions when the resource is in an unexpected state. This weakness can be security-relevant when an attacker can influence the state of the resource between check and use. This can happen with shared resources such as files, memory, or even variables in multithreaded programs.
CVE-2026-96939 has been classified to as a TOCTTOU vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2026-96939
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Affected Versions
Microsoft Windows 11 version 23H2:- Version 10.0.22631.0 and below 10.0.22631.7652 is affected.
- Version 10.0.22631.0 and below 10.0.22631.7652 is affected.
- Version 10.0.26100.0 and below 10.0.26100.9711 is affected.
- Version 10.0.26200.0 and below 10.0.26200.9711 is affected.
- Version 10.0.28000.0 and below 10.0.28000.3231 is affected.
- Version 10.0.26300.0 and below 10.0.26300.9711 is affected.
- Version 10.0.26100.0 and below 10.0.26100.33650 is affected.
- Version 10.0.26100.0 and below 10.0.26100.33650 is affected.