CVE-2026-56178CWE-367
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for Mac Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Medium · published July 14, 2026
What it is
Time-of-check time-of-use (toctou) race condition in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
The record
Technical detail
- CVSS v3.1
- 5.5 · MEDIUM
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
- CVSS v4.0
- Not supplied
- EPSS
- 0.00233 · 13.4th percentile
- Weakness
- CWE-367 · Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
- Published
- 2026-07-14T17:09Z
EPSS history
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