CVSS base score: 7.8 (High) vendor CNA · v3.1
Score assigned by the vendor's own CVE Numbering Authority (CNA); CISA's Vulnrichment program adds a score only when the CNA omits one.
Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services Insufficient Granularity of Access Control Vulnerability
Vendor: Microsoft Product: Active Directory Federation Services
Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services contains an insufficient granularity of access control vulnerability that allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Each milestone comes from a different source, so gaps between them are gaps in what those sources publish, not evidence that nothing happened. EPSS history for this CVE holds 22 points from 2026-07-18, tracked daily from 2026-09-09; earlier points are weekly, which dates a spike to within a week. Peak probability 2.3% on 2026-07-25.
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What each source publishes about which product versions carry this vulnerability, kept as written rather than merged. Absence here means no source has published applicability data, not that nothing is affected.
| Date | Source | Article |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-20 | Check Point Research | 20th July – Threat Intelligence Report |
| 2026-07-14 | SANS Internet Storm Center | Microsoft Patch Tuesday July 2026 - The AI Acopolypse is Here , (Tue, Jul 14th) |
Articles from monitored vendor research blogs and security news feeds that specifically mention this CVE. Coverage begins when feed monitoring started; earlier articles are not indexed.
Blind spot. No public detection — verify by version/patch. Nothing in the monitored scanner, IDS, SIEM or offensive-tool collections references this CVE, so exposure has to be established from asset inventory and patch level rather than from a signature.
Coverage across public collections only: Nuclei and OpenVAS NVT (scan);
Snort and Suricata ET Open (network); Sigma and YARA (host/SIEM);
Metasploit, Exploit-DB and public GitHub repositories (exploit). Absence
here means nothing public was found, not that detection is impossible.
GitHub PoC repositories are collected automatically by
PoC-in-GitHub (CC0) and are not vetted:
some are fakes and some are malware. Treat them as evidence that code was
published, not as code to run.
OpenVAS coverage derives from the Greenbone Community Feed, made available
under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0;
its individual Vulnerability Tests are licensed
GNU GPL v2.
Active Directory Federation Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
The vendor's own judgement about their own code, shown alongside CISA's rather than merged into it. The exploitability index is a forward-looking prediction, distinct from a CVSS severity or CISA's SSVC decision, and vendors often report observed exploitation before a CVE reaches the KEV catalog. Vendor advisory →
| Source | Date | Record |
|---|---|---|
| CISA KEV | 2026-07-14 | source record → |
| CISA Vulnrichment | 2026-07-14 | source record → |
| Date | Advisory | Issuer |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-15 | Microsoft Releases July 2026 Security Updates | JPCERT/CC |
| 2026-07-14 | CISA Adds Four Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog | CISA |
No exploit-tool sightings recorded for this CVE.
Evidence tiers are explained on the About page — a merged Metasploit module is far stronger evidence than a distro package mention.