CVE-2026-33825Vulnerability
Microsoft Defender Insufficient Granularity of Access Control Vulnerability
Reported by 4 independent sources · first reported by Huntress · last reported
Last reported 3 days ago
Fix due 6 May 2026
Used by ransomware: knownCISA KEV catalogue
higher than 33% of CVEsFIRST EPSS, as of 23 Oct 2026
What the reports say
4 reports, newest first · the exact sentence from each-
The Science of Exploitability: Decoding BlueHammer“BlueHammer (CVE-2026-33825) is an eight-stage local privilege-escalation chain targeting the Windows Defender Antimalware Platform before 4.18.26030.3011.”
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Cyber Brief 26-06 - May 2026“The latest exploits follow the researcher's previous disclosure of the BlueHammer (CVE-2026-33825) and RedSun.”
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June 2026 CVE Landscape“CVE-2026-33825”
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Nightmare-Eclipse Tooling Seen in Real-World Intrusion“As part of its April 2026 updates, Microsoft rolled out a patch for the BlueHammer vulnerability (tracked as CVE-2026-33825).”
Indicators reported together
named in the same reportsAlso named with it: CVE-2026-35616, CVE-2026-25089, CVE-2026-39808, CVE-2026-11645, CVE-2026-28318, CVE-2026-20230, CVE-2026-43284, CVE-2026-0300, CVE-2026-45585, CVE-2025-55182, CVE-2026-21509, CVE-2025-8088, CVE-2025-6218, CVE-2026-35273, CVE-2021-27137, CVE-2026-46817, CVE-2026-48907, CVE-2026-12569, CVE-2022-27925, CVE-2023-46747
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