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CVE-2026-56857

9.8 critical SSVC exploitation: none Awaiting Analysis

On Windows, when the target of Root.Mkdir or Root.MkdirAll is a junction pointing to an empty location, the operation can create a directory at the junction target even when that target is located outside the root. This only applies to operations where the last path component is a junction (path/to/junction, but not path/junction/target).

Fix

Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.

Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 9.8NVD modified 2026-10-09 16:35

Affected (CPE criteria) 0

NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.

References 4