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CVE-2026-20875
CVE-2026-20875 is a high severity Microsoft vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5. Its EPSS score puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 75%. Microsoft has shipped the fix: deploy one of the 14 updates below from the Microsoft Update Catalog, and see where this CVE sits against the rest on the patch tracker.
Risk summary
Not in the CISA KEV catalog. EPSS exploit probability 75%. CVSS 7.5 (High).
This CVE is among the top 25% of tracked Microsoft CVEs by EPSS exploit probability.
Rated Critical at CVSS 9.8 with a 73 percent exploit probability, this LSASS denial of service flaw affects Windows 10 1809 and Windows Server 2019. LSASS is the single point of failure for authentication: crash it and the machine reboots on the spot, and doing that repeatedly to domain controllers amounts to an outage of the whole directory. The extremely high EPSS number puts this in the exploit-expected category despite no KEV listing yet.
Do this: Get Server 2019 domain controllers patched first and watch for unexplained LSASS-triggered reboots as a sign of attempted exploitation.
AI-generated from public data, 2026-07-07. Verify against the vendor advisory before acting.
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Official patch(es) for CVE-2026-20875
High priority: EPSS puts the odds of near-term exploitation high. In Intune or Defender, confirm whether the fixing updates KB5073379, KB5073450, KB5073455, KB5073457, KB5073695, KB5073696, KB5073697, KB5073698, KB5073699, KB5073700, KB5073722, KB5073723, KB5073724, KB5074109 are installed across the affected products. Senserva does this automatically across your tenant and flags every missing patch.
Apply the Microsoft security updates below to fix CVE-2026-20875. Each KB page carries the Microsoft Update Catalog download, Microsoft's known issues for the update, a copy-paste PowerShell check for whether it is installed, and the Senserva AI read.
Scope and sources
- Affected products
- Fixed by the same updates
- Authoritative references
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