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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD5.5 Medium

CVE-2026-56178

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for Mac Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Description

Time-of-check time-of-use (toctou) race condition in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Microsoft Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for Mac

  • 101.0.0 to < 101.26042.0020affected

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