CVE-2026-96969
A NVD · · CVE-2026-96969
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
- 7.0
- EPSS
- 0%
Key insight
The NVD entry contains no indication of active exploitation, exploit code, or an attacker campaign and therefore does not go beyond pure patch information.
Description
CVE-2026-96969 describes a double-free flaw in Windows TCP/IP. An authorized attacker can thereby elevate privileges locally. Exploitation requires local access; remote exploitation is not mentioned in the description. There are no indications of active exploitation, public exploit code, or attribution to an attacker campaign. The entry is an NVD description without additional contextual information.
Risk score
- cvss base
- 70.00
- kev bonus
- 0.00
- epss bonus
- 0.00
- poc bonus
- 0.00
- raw before weight
- 70.00
- industry weight
- 1.21
- freshness factor
- 1.00
- exploitability factor
- 0.75
- days old
- 0.00
- vendor mismatch penalty
- 0.00
Path: operational