CVE-2026-21242

Description

Use after free in Windows Subsystem for Linux allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

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• What do statuses mean?

References

• MITRE
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian

Other references

• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-21242
• https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-21242