Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessObtain low-privilege authenticated access
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ExploitSend crafted WebDAV request over network
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ExecutionAccess files/directories beyond authorization
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ImpactDisclose sensitive information
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V5 - File Handling File access restriction
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 1 tactic: Collection The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires (1) the WebDAV component to be present and network-reachable on the target Windows host, and (2) the attacker to hold a valid low-privilege authorization (PR:L) - it is NOT remote-unauthenticated. Per CVSS, attack complexity is low and no user interaction is needed (AC:L/UI:N), so once authenticated the request is straightforward. Limiting factors that reduce real-world risk: the authentication requirement, the fact that WebDAV must actually be enabled/exposed (not universally on by default across all listed SKUs), and CISA SSVC assessing the attack as non-automatable with only partial technical impact. The precise WebDAV feature/configuration that must be active is not specified in the available description and should be verified against the Microsoft MSRC advisory. |
| Impact | This is a moderate-severity information disclosure flaw in the Windows WebDAV component (CWE-552). The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N) indicates a network-reachable, low-complexity attack, but critically requires PR:L - the attacker must already hold some level of authorization. Impact is confidentiality-only and high (C:H/I:N/A:N) with an unchanged scope. The signals are internally consistent and point AWAY from an urgent, mass-exploitation priority: CISA's SSVC decision framework rates Exploitation as 'none', Automatable as 'no', and Technical Impact as only 'partial', and no EPSS score, KEV listing, or public POC is present in the provided data. The combination of required authentication plus non-automatable, partial-impact exploitation makes this a meaningful but not top-tier patch priority - more relevant to environments where WebDAV is exposed and low-privilege accounts are plentiful (e.g., shared/enterprise servers). Note the ceiling, however: C:H means a successful attack can disclose sensitive file contents, so it should not be dismissed. No key signals conflict; the main caveat is that the terse description does not specify exactly what information is exposed or under what WebDAV configuration. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker who already possesses a low-privilege authenticated foothold (e.g., a standard user or a low-trust account on a server running WebDAV) sends crafted WebDAV requests over the network to a vulnerable Windows host and retrieves files or directory contents that should not be accessible to their privilege level. No user interaction is required and attack complexity is low, but no public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 14, 2026
Information disclosure in the Windows WebDAV component lets an authenticated, low-privileged attacker read files or directories that should not be exposed over the network (CWE-552), rated CVSS 6.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N, high confidentiality impact, no integrity or availability impact). The flaw affects a broad set of unpatched Windows client and server SKUs - Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server 2012 through 2025 - wherever WebDAV is present and network-reachable. Exploitation is not remote-unauthenticated: it requires a valid low-privilege account plus WebDAV exposure, CISA's SSVC rates exploitation as not observed, non-automatable and only partial technical impact, and no public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis. Vendor patches are available.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patches are available: apply the Microsoft security update for CVE-2026-88137 (https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-88137), which brings each affected branch to the fixed build levels given in the advisory data - 10.0.14393.9612, 10.0.17763.9376, 10.0.19044.7807, 10.0.22631.7652, 10.0.26100.9711, 10.0.26200.9711, 10.0.28000.3231, 10.0.26300.9711, 10.0.20348.5761, 10.0.26100.33650, 6.2.9200.26434, and 6.3.9600.23470 - and note that Server Core installations share the same fix builds as their full counterparts, so both must be updated. Where immediate patching is not possible, reduce exposure by disabling WebDAV where it is not a business requirement: stop and disable the WebClient service on clients that do not map remote WebDAV shares, and remove/disable the WebDAV publishing feature or module on IIS/servers that do not publish DAV content - the trade-off is loss of WebDAV-based file access and any application depending on it. Additionally, restrict network reachability of the WebDAV endpoint with host firewall rules and segmentation so that only trusted management subnets can reach it, and constrain the leaked-data blast radius by ensuring accounts performing day-to-day work are genuinely low-privilege and that sensitive files are not co-located with WebDAV-exposed directories. Because exploitation requires a valid low-privilege account, monitoring for anomalous authenticated PROPFIND/GET activity against WebDAV paths, especially traversal-like sequences, is a useful compensating detection while patches are staged; none of these controls replaces the patch, and their side effects (broken DAV workflows, blocked legitimate remote access) should be validated in a test environment first.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
WebDAV (RFC 4918) extends HTTP with methods such as PROPFIND, PROPPATCH, MKCOL, COPY, MOVE and LOCK so that remote clients can browse and manipulate file collections over the web; on Windows this surface is provided by WebDAV-related client/server componentry (the WebClient redirector and WebDAV server roles/features), which is why the affected product matrix spans every supported Windows SKU rather than a single service. The root cause is CWE-552 (Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties): an access-control/authorization gap - reinforced by the Path Traversal tag and the CWE's traversal-adjacent class - allows a resource that should remain outside a requester's view to be reached through the WebDAV interface, yielding a confidentiality-only (C:H/I:N/A:N) disclosure. The CVSS vector's PR:L is decisive: the attacker must already hold a valid low-privilege authorization on the target, so this is a privilege-escalation-adjacent information leak rather than a pre-auth compromise, while AC:L/UI:N means that once authenticated the request itself is trivial and needs no victim interaction. The precise WebDAV feature, handler, or configuration that must be enabled for the leak is not specified in the available description and should be confirmed against the Microsoft MSRC advisory before scoping exposure.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
WebDAV is network-facing (AV:N) with low complexity, but requires a low-privilege authorized account (PR:L); impact is confidentiality-only disclosure (C:H/I:N/A:N) with no scope change.
Primary rating from Vendor (microsoft).
CVSS VectorVendor: microsoft
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2DescriptionCVE.org
Files or directories accessible to external parties in WebDAV allows an authorized attacker to disclose information over a network.
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