CVE-2026-119946
A NVD · · CVE-2026-119946
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
- 5.9
- EPSS
- 0%
Key insight
The report contains only the bare CVE record , no exploitation status, PoC code, attack patterns or affected victim sectors are given, so no prioritisation beyond the CVSS context is possible.
Description
CVE-2026-119946 describes improper access control in the Windows kernel-mode driver HTTP.sys, which handles HTTP processing in the operating system. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit the flaw over the network to disclose information. Affected are Windows systems in which HTTP.sys is active as part of the IIS or HTTP server stack, including server and client editions. At the time of the NVD entry, there is no information on active exploitation, inclusion in the KEV list, or publicly available exploit code; the assessment relies solely on the CVE description.
Risk score
- cvss base
- 59.00
- kev bonus
- 0.00
- epss bonus
- 0.00
- poc bonus
- 0.00
- raw before weight
- 59.00
- industry weight
- 1.21
- freshness factor
- 1.00
- exploitability factor
- 1.00
- days old
- 0.00
- vendor mismatch penalty
- 0.00
Path: operational