Exposure of private personal information to an unauthorized actor in Windows RDP allows an unauthorized attacker to disclose information over a network.
CVE-2026-56171
This high-severity CVE scores 7.5 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.6%, top 57% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory enrichment pending alignment with NVD CVSS.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.5(medium)
- EG Risk
- 34(Track)EG Risk 34/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity75% × 45%Exploitation1% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS
- 42.8%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 17, 2026
Last Modified
July 22, 2026
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated Jul 17, 2026Security Update Guide - Microsoft Security Response Center
Security Update Guide - Microsoft Security Response Center. Patch available via Microsoft Security Update
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-56171Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-56171(2)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 19× in last 7d / 19× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-07-23 03:20 UTCEG score recompute▲ 0.40
- 2026-07-23 00:11 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-23 00:11 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-07-23 00:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-22 18:51 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 7.5
- 2026-07-22 14:08 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-21 15:25 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-20 17:56 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-20 17:56 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-07-20 17:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-20 17:08 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-19 14:31 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-19 14:31 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-19 02:29 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-18 00:02 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-18 00:02 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-07-17 21:40 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-17 21:40 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-07-17 21:39 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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