Time-of-check time-of-use (toctou) race condition in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
CVE-2026-45647
This high-severity CVE scores 7.0 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.2%, top 88% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory enrichment pending alignment with NVD CVSS.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 7.0
- EG Score
- 7.0(medium)
- EG Risk
- 32(Track)EG Risk 32/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity70% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 12%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
June 9, 2026
Last Modified
July 23, 2026
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated Jun 13, 2026Security Update Guide - Microsoft Security Response Center
Security Update Guide - Microsoft Security Response Center. Patch available via Microsoft Security Update
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-45647Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-45647(2)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 21× in last 7d / 77× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 100 of 137 total refreshes for this CVE.
- 2026-07-28 02:42 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-28 02:42 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-07-28 02:42 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-27 14:13 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-27 09:44 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-07-27 09:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-26 21:16 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-26 21:16 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-07-26 21:15 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-26 14:54 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-07-26 06:32 UTCEG score recompute▲ 1.50
- 2026-07-26 06:32 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-07-26 06:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-25 14:18 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-24 14:17 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-23 14:18 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-23 09:51 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 7 · severity → HIGH
- 2026-07-23 03:16 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-22 14:08 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-21 15:24 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-07-19 14:31 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-18 10:04 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-07-16 01:35 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-07-16 01:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-15 16:57 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-07-15 02:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
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- 2026-07-14 01:47 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-07-14 01:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-13 22:30 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-07-13 02:41 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-07-13 02:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-12 05:46 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-11 19:14 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-07-11 19:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-11 08:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-10 20:03 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-07-10 20:03 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-09 19:10 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-08 23:42 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-07-08 23:42 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-08 15:16 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-08 00:35 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-07-08 00:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-07 13:46 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-07-06 02:23 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-05 13:38 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-07-05 13:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
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- 2026-07-04 13:34 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-07-04 13:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-04 06:31 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-03 08:51 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-07-03 08:51 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-02 07:25 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-07-02 07:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-01 15:07 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-01 08:19 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-07-01 08:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-30 23:22 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-30 09:12 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-06-30 09:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-29 14:06 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-29 14:06 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-29 10:02 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-06-29 10:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-28 14:07 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-28 10:55 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-06-28 10:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-28 04:56 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-06-27 11:43 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-06-27 11:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-27 03:08 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-26 12:35 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-06-26 12:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-25 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-25 08:23 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-06-25 08:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-24 14:05 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-24 09:16 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-06-24 09:15 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-23 21:33 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-06-23 10:08 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-06-23 10:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-22 14:25 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-22 14:25 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-22 09:12 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-06-22 09:11 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-21 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-21 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-21 08:00 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-06-21 08:00 UTCGHSA enrichment
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