Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessObtain low-privileged local access
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ExploitInvoke flawed authorization path in Edge
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ExecutionBypass incorrect authorization check
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ImpactGain elevated privileges locally
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization logic validation
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Requires local access to a system running Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) and pre-existing low-level privileges (PR:L) - i.e. an already-authenticated local user or a low-privileged process; it is not remotely exploitable (AV:L). No user interaction is needed (UI:N). Limiting factors: the attacker must already have a foothold on the host, the impact is confined to limited confidentiality and integrity disclosure/modification with no availability loss, and the supplied vector marks the exploit as Unproven. The exact product feature, authorization check, or configuration that is mis-evaluated is not described in the available sources, so no specific enabling setting can be named. |
| Impact | This is a low-to-moderate priority issue, not an emergency. The CVSS 3.1 base score is 4.4 (Medium) with vector AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N, meaning exploitation requires local access and pre-existing low privileges on the target host, yields only limited confidentiality and integrity impact, and has no availability impact and no scope change. The temporal metrics in the supplied vector (E:U/RL:O/RC:C) explicitly indicate the exploit maturity is Unproven, an official fix is available, and the report is Confirmed - all of which lower real-world urgency. There is no CISA KEV listing and no EPSS score was provided, so no probabilistic exploitation signal is available; combined with E:U this points to no demonstrated exploitation. No SSVC decision tree values were supplied; the only priority signal is the vuln.today 'this_month' decision label, which is consistent with a patch-within-your-normal-cycle posture rather than act_now/emergency. The signals are internally consistent: a genuine but modest local privilege-escalation flaw in a browser, worth patching on a routine cadence rather than an out-of-band basis. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A local, already-authenticated user (or malware running in a low-privileged context) on a machine running Microsoft Edge abuses an incorrect-authorization check to perform an action or access a resource it should not be permitted to, thereby elevating its privileges locally. The specific trigger is not described in the available sources, and the supplied vector marks exploit code as Unproven (E:U); no public exploit was identified at time of analysis. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 30, 2026
Incorrect authorization in Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) lets a local user who already holds low-level privileges elevate their effective permissions on the host, affecting limited confidentiality and integrity with no availability impact. Microsoft rates the issue CVSS 4.4 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N) and classifies it as a local privilege escalation via CWE-863 authorization bypass. No public exploit code or active exploitation is confirmed, the exploit maturity is marked Unproven, and a vendor patch is available through the Microsoft Security Update Guide; this is a low-to-moderate priority issue, not an emergency.
RemediationAI
Apply the vendor-released fix described in Microsoft's Security Update Guide entry for CVE-2026-69446 (https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-69446), which is the authoritative source for the exact patched Edge builds and version numbers; no specific patched version is stated in the available data, so it must be taken from that advisory. Until the update can be deployed, note that exploitation requires an attacker to already hold local low-level privileges on the host, so reducing the number of local accounts and untrusted low-privileged processes on Edge endpoints decreases exposure. The supplied sources do not describe any product setting that specifically disables the affected authorization path, and do not state that any configuration workaround fully substitutes for the update; treat updating as the complete fix.
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Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The flaw is an incorrect authorization (CWE-863) defect in the Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser, meaning a security check compares or applies privileges incorrectly so that an operation permitted to a lower-privileged context is not properly restricted. The CPE cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:microsoft_edge_(chromium-based) identifies the affected codebase without a version constraint. Per the assessed vector, exploitation requires local access (AV:L) and pre-existing low-level privileges (PR:L), with no user interaction (UI:N) and no scope change (S:U), yielding only limited confidentiality and integrity impact and no availability loss. Microsoft's reference labels the issue an authentication bypass and a local elevation of privileges. The specific browser feature, component, or authorization check that is mis-evaluated is not described in the available sources, so the exact trigger cannot be stated; the vector's Unproven exploit maturity further indicates no verified working exploit.
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Severity by source
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Local privilege escalation by an already-authenticated low-privileged user (AV:L, PR:L) with no interaction; incorrect authorization yields limited C/I and no availability impact, scope unchanged.
Primary rating from Vendor (microsoft).
CVSS VectorVendor: microsoft
DescriptionCVE.org
Incorrect authorization in Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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Attack Technique
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EUVD-2026-114242
GHSA-6jfw-hgqc-f449
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