CVE-2026-96179
A NVD · · CVE-2026-96179
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
- 6.7
- EPSS
- 0%
Key insight
The report contains no information beyond the pure CVE description about active exploitation, affected sectors, or attacker TTPs.
Description
CVE-2026-96179 describes a use-after-free vulnerability in the DNS Server service. An authorized attacker with local execution capability can use it to elevate privileges on the affected system. The vulnerability affects the DNS Server, which is used, among other things, as a role in Windows Server environments. At the time of the NVD entry, no indications of active exploitation, a public exploit, or attribution to an attack campaign are included.
Risk score
- cvss base
- 67.00
- kev bonus
- 0.00
- epss bonus
- 0.00
- poc bonus
- 0.00
- raw before weight
- 67.00
- industry weight
- 1.21
- freshness factor
- 1.00
- exploitability factor
- 0.75
- days old
- 0.00
- vendor mismatch penalty
- 0.00
Path: operational