High CVSS 7.8
CVE-2026-62832
Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Windows User Profile Service 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.
- Impact
- An attacker can read sensitive data, modify or destroy data and take the service offline.
- Weakness
- The program follows a symbolic link without checking its target, so a local attacker can redirect it to a sensitive file.
- Likelihood
- Its EPSS score puts short-term exploitation in a middle band: neither negligible nor imminent.
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.