CVE-2026-72998
A NVD · · CVE-2026-72998
Admiralty grading (A–F · 1–6)
Source reliability
- A Completely reliable
- B Usually reliable
- C Fairly reliable
- D Not usually reliable
- E Unreliable
- F Cannot be judged
Information credibility
- 1 Confirmed
- 2 Probably true
- 3 Possibly true
- 4 Doubtful
- 5 Improbable
- 6 Cannot be judged
NATO Admiralty (AJP-2.1) grades confidence, independent of the risk score. Cross-source corroboration isn't tracked for non-CVE news, so single-source items are capped at a lower credibility number; a low number does not imply low quality.
Key metrics
- CVSS
- 8.1
- EPSS
- 0%
Key insight
The report provides no indication of active exploitation, a PoC, or specific attacker activity beyond the basic patch information.
Description
The vulnerability CVE-2026-72998 is a use-after-free in the Windows DHCP Server. An unauthenticated attacker can thereby execute code over the network on an affected server. Affected are Windows Server installations with the DHCP Server role enabled. The NVD entry contains no information about active exploitation, a public proof of concept, or inclusion in CISA KEV.
Risk score
- cvss base
- 81.00
- kev bonus
- 0.00
- epss bonus
- 0.00
- poc bonus
- 0.00
- raw before weight
- 81.00
- industry weight
- 1.21
- freshness factor
- 1.00
- exploitability factor
- 1.00
- days old
- 0.00
- vendor mismatch penalty
- 0.00
Path: operational