CVSS 3.1
4.6 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2026-20834
Medium (4.6) in microsoft. EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Absolute path traversal in Windows Shell allows an unauthorized attacker to perform spoofing with a physical attack.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 54% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-36, CWE-359
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- microsoft:windows_10_1607
- microsoft:windows_10_1809
- microsoft:windows_10_21h2
- microsoft:windows_10_22h2
- microsoft:windows_11_23h2
- microsoft:windows_11_24h2
- microsoft:windows_11_25h2
- microsoft:windows_server_2008
- microsoft:windows_server_2012
- microsoft:windows_server_2016
- microsoft:windows_server_2019
- microsoft:windows_server_2022
- microsoft:windows_server_2022_23h2
- microsoft:windows_server_2025