Microsoft security update for CVE-2026-96303 — PowerShell
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products3
- PowerShell 7.4
- PowerShell 7.5
- PowerShell 7.6
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 3 updates
3 rows: 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 | 7.5.12 |
| — | Security Update | 7.4.21 |
| — | Security Update | 7.6.8 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2026-96303
- EchelonGraph score
- 6.5 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
Improperly implemented security check for standard in Microsoft PowerShell allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature over a network.
Published by Microsoft Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2026-96303, 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).
🔗 References (5)
- advisoryhttps://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-96303
- patchhttps://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/tag/v7.5.12
- referencehttps://github.com/PowerShell/Announcements/blob/main/pwsh/2026/10/CVE-2026-96303.md
- patchhttps://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/tag/v7.4.21
- patchhttps://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/tag/v7.6.8