Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2026-114155 - .NET Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2026-114155
Executive summary Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability in the .NET SDK's dotnet-watch component. This advisory provides guidance on updating affected SDK installations. A local attacker who can replace or modify a temporary solution file used by dotnet-watch can alter a subsequent build. The fix stores generated solution files in a private temporary directory and keeps each file open with read-only sharing while the build uses it. Announcement Announcement for this issue can be found at https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/502 CVSS Details Version: 3.1 Severity: High Score: 7.5 (base score) Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C Weakness: CWE-367 MSRC severity: Important Impact: Elevation of Privilege Affected Platforms Platforms: Linux, macOS. Architectures: Linux: Arm, Arm64, x64; macOS: Arm64, x64 Windows is outside this advisory's affected scope when its temporary directory is private to the current user, as assumed by the implementation. Shared or insecurely configured Windows temporary directories are not covered by that assumption. Affected Packages The .NET SDK includes dotnet-watch…
Assessment
- CVSS
- 6.5 (v3.1)
- Severity
- Medium
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 11 November 2026
- Last updated
- 11 November 2026
- Weakness
- CWE-367
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
At the source
References
- https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/security/advisories/GHSA-q7j6-px74-p2vw
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-114155
- https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/502
- https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/57040
- https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet/pull/10885
- https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet/pull/10886
- https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet/commit/032f564872d408f03fba11c8d03e5cd7386164cd
- https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet/commit/c46253a634a2725fd34820ad8a36a3f106f5d01d
- https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/10.0/10.0.15/10.0.15.md
- https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/11.0/11.0.0/11.0.0.md
- https://github.com/dotnet/core/releases/tag/v10.0.15
- https://github.com/dotnet/core/releases/tag/v11.0.0
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