CVE-2026-50526: Microsoft .net

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in .NET allows an authorized attacker to perform tampering locally.

Affected products

• Microsoft .net: from 8.0.0, before 8.0.29 (fixed in 8.0.29); from 9.0.0, before 9.0.18 (fixed in 9.0.18); from 10.0.0, before 10.0.6 (fixed in 10.0.6)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2022: from 17.12.0, before 17.12.22 (fixed in 17.12.22); from 17.14.0, before 17.14.36 (fixed in 17.14.36)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2026: from 18.7.0, before 18.7.4 (fixed in 18.7.4)

Published 2026-07-14. Last modified 2026-07-22.