CVE-2026-96986
A NVD · · CVE-2026-96986
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
- 4.9
- EPSS
- 0%
Key insight
The NVD entry provides only the CVE description; there are no indications of active exploitation, a PoC, or specific attack campaigns.
Description
CVE-2026-96986 describes an out-of-bounds read in Windows DNS. An authorized attacker can thereby disclose information over the network. The entry comes from NVD and contains no information on active exploitation, proof of concept, or specific attack targets. The Windows DNS service is affected; further details on exploitability are not provided. The status is a pure vulnerability description without a known campaign.
Risk score
- cvss base
- 49.00
- kev bonus
- 0.00
- epss bonus
- 0.00
- poc bonus
- 0.00
- raw before weight
- 49.00
- industry weight
- 1.21
- freshness factor
- 1.00
- exploitability factor
- 1.00
- days old
- 0.00
- vendor mismatch penalty
- 0.00
Path: operational