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Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Authenticate as low-privileged local user
  2. Exploit
    Abuse improper access control in Windows Notification
  3. Impact
    Disclose unauthorized sensitive information

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A07:2025 - Authentication Failures
ASVS 5.0
V6 - Authentication Authentication required for critical functions
MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique across 1 tactic: Initial Access

The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up.

Exploitation Conditions

Exploitation requires the attacker to already have local, interactive access to an affected Windows system with at least a low-privileged authenticated account (CVSS AV:L, PR:L); it cannot be triggered remotely or by an unauthenticated user. The specific trigger is improper access control in the Windows Notification feature, allowing the authorized local user to read information outside their intended authorization boundary. No user interaction from a victim is required (UI:N), and impact is confined to confidentiality (C:H) with no integrity or availability effect. Limiting factors: the prerequisite of prior local access and valid credentials, and the absence of any privilege escalation or write capability, substantially narrow realistic risk to insider or post-compromise situations. Affected systems are those below the fixed build numbers listed in the EUVD data (e.g., Windows 11 24H2 before 10.0.26100.9711, Server 2019 before 10.0.17763.9376); patched builds are not exposed.

Impact

This is a moderate-severity, local information-disclosure flaw whose real-world priority is low despite a confirmed-exploitable profile. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N, base 5.5) requires local access and existing low-level privileges (PR:L), limiting it to an already-authenticated attacker who gains only confidentiality impact (C:H, with no integrity or availability effect). Multiple exploitation signals agree on low urgency: SSVC reports Exploitation 'none', Automatable 'no', and Technical Impact 'partial', and there is no CISA KEV listing and no public exploit identified at time of analysis. No EPSS score was provided in the input, so probabilistic exploitation likelihood cannot be quantified here. One internal inconsistency should be noted: the input CWE is CWE-306 (Missing Authentication for Critical Function) and the tag is 'Authentication Bypass', yet the CVSS vector requires privileges (PR:L) and the description frames the issue as improper access control enabling local information disclosure - the 'authentication bypass' framing conflicts with a vector that still requires an authorized local user, so treat the CWE/tag as weakly aligned and rely on the description and vector. Overall: a genuine but low-priority local info-disclosure bug, not a high-urgency remote threat.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

A low-privileged local user already logged on to a Windows host abuses an improper access-control weakness in the Windows Notification component to read information they should not be authorized to see. Because the CVSS vector is AV:L/PR:L, the attacker must first have local access and valid (low) credentials, so this is realistically a post-compromise or malicious-insider/privilege-boundary scenario rather than remote entry. No public exploit code or active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
Patch available 0.3% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Oct 14, 2026

Information disclosure in the Microsoft Windows Notification component allows a locally authenticated, low-privileged user to read information outside their intended authorization boundary. The underlying weakness is improper/missing access control (CWE-306), exploitable only by an attacker who already holds interactive local access with at least low privileges (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N), with impact confined to confidentiality (C:H) and no integrity or availability effect and no privilege escalation. This is a moderate-severity issue (CVSS 5.5) that is not known to be actively exploited and for which no public exploit code was identified at time of analysis; CISA's SSVC assessment rates exploitation as 'none', the attack as non-automatable, and technical impact as partial, while Microsoft has published vendor patches fixing the affected builds.

RemediationAI

Apply the Microsoft vendor patch for CVE-2026-83854 through the MSRC update guide (https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-83854), which also corresponds to the NVD record at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-83854; patch status is 'available from vendor' with no independently confirmed fixed version string beyond the EUVD build thresholds, so remediate by bringing each branch to or above the listed baselines (Windows 10 1809 and Server 2019 to 10.0.17763.9376, Windows 10 21H2/22H2 to 10.0.19044.7807, Windows 11 23H2 to 10.0.22631.7652, Windows 11 24H2 and Server 2025 to 10.0.26100.33650, Windows 11 25H2 to 10.0.26200.9711, Windows 11 26H1 to 10.0.28000.3231, Windows 11 26H2 to 10.0.26300.9711, and Server 2022 to 10.0.20348.5761). Because the flaw requires an attacker to already hold local interactive access with low privileges and yields no privilege escalation, no configuration workaround can remove the vulnerability itself; the practical compensating controls are to tighten who can log on interactively to sensitive hosts (restrict Interactive and Remote Interactive logon rights, enforce least privilege and just-in-time admin access, and remove standing local accounts), which reduces the pool of possible actors at the cost of added friction for legitimate operators, and to monitor and alert on anomalous local read activity by non-administrative users, which is detection rather than prevention and generates false positives in environments with heavy legitimate local tooling. Patch deployment should be prioritized on multi-user and server systems where untrusted or low-privileged users are permitted to log on locally, while single-user workstations can follow the normal monthly servicing cadence.

Affected VersionsENISA

Windows Server 2019 10.0.17763.0 <10.0.17763.9376
Windows 10 Version 22H2 10.0.19045.0 <10.0.19044.7807
Windows 11 Version 26H2 10.0.26300.0 <10.0.26300.9711
Windows Server 2025 (Server Core installation) 10.0.26100.0 <10.0.26100.33650
Windows Server 2022 10.0.20348.0 <10.0.20348.5761
Windows 10 Version 21H2 10.0.19044.0 <10.0.19044.7807
Windows 11 version 26H1 10.0.28000.0 <10.0.28000.3231
Windows 11 Version 25H2 10.0.26200.0 <10.0.26200.9711
Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation) 10.0.17763.0 <10.0.17763.9376
Windows Server 2025 10.0.26100.0 <10.0.26100.33650
Windows 11 Version 23H2 10.0.22631.0 <10.0.22631.7652
Windows 10 Version 1809 10.0.17763.0 <10.0.17763.9376
Windows 11 Version 24H2 10.0.26100.0 <10.0.26100.9711

Affected Packages

euvd windows_10_version_1809 fix: 10.0.17763.9376
euvd windows_10_version_21h2 fix: 10.0.19044.7807
euvd windows_10_version_22h2 fix: 10.0.19044.7807
euvd windows_11_version_23h2 fix: 10.0.22631.7652
euvd windows_11_version_24h2 fix: 10.0.26100.9711
euvd windows_11_version_25h2 fix: 10.0.26200.9711
euvd windows_11_version_26h1 fix: 10.0.28000.3231
euvd windows_11_version_26h2 fix: 10.0.26300.9711
euvd windows_server_2019 fix: 10.0.17763.9376
euvd windows_server_2019_server_core_installation fix: 10.0.17763.9376
euvd windows_server_2022 fix: 10.0.20348.5761
euvd windows_server_2025 fix: 10.0.26100.33650
euvd windows_server_2025_server_core_installation fix: 10.0.26100.33650

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 13 packages in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

The root cause class is CWE-306 (Missing Authentication for Critical Function), reflected in the supplied tags as an 'Authentication Bypass' in the Windows Notification subsystem: a privileged notification-related operation or interface is reachable without the access check that should gate it, so a caller operating under an ordinary local user token can retrieve data it is not authorized to see. Because the CVSS vector is AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N, the attack path is strictly local and interactive - the actor must already be logged in on the target host with valid low-privileged credentials, no victim interaction is needed, and the scope stays unchanged, meaning the compromise does not cross a security authority boundary within the component's own scope. There is no write primitive: the flaw leaks information only, which is why the SSVC technical impact is 'partial' and the CISA decision framework judges the attack non-automatable - it cannot be fanned out remotely or chained automatically without a separate local-access vector. The affected component is part of the core Windows platform rather than an optional feature, so exposure scales with the deployed Windows fleet; EUVD tracks the issue as EUVD-2026-99390 with fixed-build thresholds per servicing branch, and the CVSS vector in the independent assessment is identical to the published one, so no downgrade or upgrade of the severity picture is warranted.

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Severity by source

Vendor (microsoft) PRIMARY 5.5 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
vuln.today AI 5.5 MEDIUM

Local access and an existing low-privileged account are required (AV:L, PR:L), no victim interaction is needed (UI:N), and the impact is confidentiality-only information disclosure (C:H, I:N, A:N).

3.1 AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
4.0 AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (microsoft).

CVSS VectorVendor: microsoft

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

Lifecycle Timeline

2
Patch available
Oct 13, 2026 - 20:20 EUVD
CVE Published
Oct 13, 2026 - 19:20 cve.org
MEDIUM 5.5

DescriptionCVE.org

Improper access control in Windows Notification allows an authorized attacker to disclose information locally.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.3%
Top 83% exploitable
Prevalence
Ubiquitous
Microsoft Windows client and server; present in a huge fraction of environments
Vendor Status
Publicly Disclosed:No
Exploited:No
Latest Software Release:Exploitation Less Likely
Data Quality
5 sources
Confidence: Medium

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity MEDIUM
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.3%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Defer
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Small
Automatable
No
Human Impact· derived
Medium
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

28
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +28
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

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