🛡️ CVE-2026-33825 — defender-antimalware-platform

🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-1220 NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
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Description

Insufficient granularity of access control in Microsoft Defender allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-33825 is classified as CWE-1220: Insufficient Granularity of Access Control. The product implements access controls via a policy or other feature with the intention to disable or restrict accesses (reads and/or writes) to assets in a system from untrusted agents.

Affected software

CVE-2026-33825 is recorded against 1 package.

  • defender-antimalware-platform (fixed in 4.18.26030.3011)

Timeline and source

Published on 14 April 2026 and last revised on 24 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

msrc.microsoft.com
www.cisa.gov
www.huntress.com

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-1220
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-04-14
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-07-24
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
defender-antimalware-platform — 4.18.26030.3011

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