Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-69475 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-69475 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-69475?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 7.8, published 8 September 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Services.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-69475?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-69475 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-69475?
- Check whether you run Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Services. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
The vulnerability is a pointer dereference flaw in Windows Remote Desktop Services that enables privilege escalation. The flaw requires an authenticated local attacker with at least user-level access to the system. By leveraging untrusted pointer operations within RDS, an attacker can execute code in the context of a higher-privileged process, achieving local privilege escalation. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (high severity) and does not require network access, though it does require prior system authentication.
Affected products
- Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Services
Timeline
- 2026-09-08: disclosed