CVE-2026-96081
A NVD · · CVE-2026-96081
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
- 7.5
- EPSS
- 0%
Key insight
The NVD entry provides no indication of active exploitation, exploit code, or specific attackers, and therefore does not go beyond basic vulnerability information.
Description
CVE-2026-96081 is a heap-based buffer overflow in the Windows Rich Text Edit Control. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit the vulnerability over the network to execute arbitrary code. Affected are Windows systems and applications that use this component. The NVD entry contains no information on active exploitation, KEV status, or publicly available exploit code.
Risk score
- cvss base
- 75.00
- kev bonus
- 0.00
- epss bonus
- 0.00
- poc bonus
- 0.00
- raw before weight
- 75.00
- industry weight
- 1.21
- freshness factor
- 1.00
- exploitability factor
- 1.00
- days old
- 0.00
- vendor mismatch penalty
- 0.00
Path: operational