CVE-2026-57973

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score
0.2%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 95% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Published: July 14, 2026 (54 days ago)
Last Modified: July 20, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

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

CWE

CWE-367

Affected Products

microsoft windows subsystem for linux

References

🔗 msrc.microsoft.com