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High CVSS 7

CVE-2026-54991

Microsoft Windows 11 24h2

Concurrent execution using shared resource with improper synchronization ('race condition') in Windows USB Print Driver allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

What this means

Exposure
Exploitable with local access to the machine, with an ordinary user account and with no action from the victim. The attack does require particular conditions, which makes it less systematic.
Impact
An attacker can read sensitive data, modify or destroy data and take the service offline.
Weakness
An out-of-bounds read exposes adjacent memory, often leftover secrets.
Likelihood
Its EPSS score stays low: nothing points to imminent exploitation, which is no reason to leave it unpatched.

What to doFold into the next patch cycle.

Read automatically from the CVSS vector, the weakness type (CWE) and the EPSS score. The technical description above remains the one published by NIST.

Published
14 July 2026
CVSS
7 (v3.1) CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.15% probability of exploitation within 30 days · above 5% of all CVEs
Weakness
CWE-125CWE-362
Sources
nvd
References

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