Microsoft security update for CVE-2026-122988 — Windows Admin Center
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products1
- Windows Admin Center
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 1 update
1 row: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 2.1.36 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2026-122988
- EchelonGraph score
- 8.0 HIGH
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
Improper authorization in Windows Admin Center allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
Published by Microsoft Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2026-122988, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).
🔗 References (3)
- advisoryhttps://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-122988
- patchhttps://pkgs.dev.azure.com/WindowsAdminCenter/723d1322-c0f7-45a4-9d3e-739a0ac52bca/_packaging/wac-public-extensions/nuget/v2?id=msft.sme.vm-conversion&version=2.1.36
- referencehttps://microsoft.visualstudio.com/WindowsAdminCenter/_artifacts/feed/WindowsAdminCenterExtensionNugetUnique/NuGet/msft.sme.vm-conversion/overview/2.1.36