CVE-2026-69414
Microsoft is aware of an elevation of privilege in the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine in Microsoft Defender publicly referred to as "ShieldBreak ". We are working to provide a high quality security update that addresses this vulnerability. We will provide information in this CVE when the update is available.
- Affected products
- Defender
- Microsoft Malware Protection Engine
- All versions
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 HIGH
- EPSS
- 0.2% (14th percentile)
- Weakness
- CWE-269, CWE-284
- NVD status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-08-14
CVE-2026-69414 at NVD
1 known exploit for CVE-2026-69414
Proof-of-concept code and exploit modules indexed by Sploitus