CVE-2026-62737
Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- Published
- Aug 11, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 16, 2026
- Assigning CNA
- microsoft
- Evidence observed
- Aug 18, 2026
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 86.0%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
Untrusted pointer dereference in Windows Kernel allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Sources
2- cve-2026-62737-labExploit
Elevates a low-privilege Windows process to SYSTEM via a gdb-assisted ROP token-swap chain, demonstrating CVE-2026-62737 in a lab-only QEMU environment.
PowerShell proof-of-concept that triggers CVE-2026-62737, an arbitrary kernel call in ExecutionContext.sys, causing a controlled kernel crash on Windows 11.
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