Microsoft security update for CVE-2026-33825 — Microsoft Defender Antimalware Platform
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products1
- Microsoft Defender Antimalware Platform
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 1 update
1 row: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 4.18.26030.3011 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2026-33825
- EchelonGraph score
- 9.0 CRITICAL
- CISA KEV
- Listed since April 22, 2026
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
Insufficient granularity of access control in Microsoft Defender allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Published by Microsoft Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2026-33825, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).