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CVE-2026-85879high7.0

Windows Subsystem for Linux Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Impact

Time-of-check time-of-use (toctou) race condition in Windows Subsystem for Linux allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

Source excerpt · microsoft

Affected packages

This source has no supported package-version data for matching. You can read the advisory here, but this record alone cannot power a dependency check.

Affected products

Vendor version evidence. Product records are separate from automatic dependency matching.

Microsoft · Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2)

Version / rangeSource status
5.0.0.0 to before 2.7.10affected
microsoft version evidence

Original source description

Time-of-check time-of-use (toctou) race condition in Windows Subsystem for Linux allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

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