CVE-2026-49798Critical· 9.3▾ MidnightUse after free in Windows Kernel allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
▾ Midnight zone — Critical, or high with PoC / in-the-wild
impact 51.2 · likelihood 0.1 · exploitation 0
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Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization from CISA's ADP record at CVE.org: whether exploitation is observed, whether an attack can be automated, and how much of the system is at stake. The CVSS score shown above comes from the assigning CNA record, not NVD.
Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Sep 8.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via CVEORG
0.4%
Last analysed / modified upstream
Use after free in Windows Kernel allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
windows_10_version_1607 >= 10.0.14393.0 < 10.0.14393.9339windows_10_version_1809 >= 10.0.17763.0 < 10.0.17763.9020windows_10_version_21h2 >= 10.0.19044.0 < 10.0.19044.7548windows_10_version_22h2 >= 10.0.19045.0 < 10.0.19045.7548windows_11_version_24h2 >= 10.0.26100.0 < 10.0.26100.8875windows_11_version_25h2 >= 10.0.26200.0 < 10.0.26200.8875windows_11_version_26h1 >= 10.0.28000.0 < 10.0.28000.2525windows_server_2012 >= 6.2.9200.0 < 6.2.9200.26226windows_server_2012_server_core_installation >= 6.2.9200.0 < 6.2.9200.26226windows_server_2012_r2 >= 6.3.9600.0 < 6.3.9600.23291windows_server_2012_r2_server_core_installation >= 6.3.9600.0 < 6.3.9600.23291windows_server_2016 >= 10.0.14393.0 < 10.0.14393.9339windows_server_2016_server_core_installation >= 10.0.14393.0 < 10.0.14393.9339windows_server_2019 >= 10.0.17763.0 < 10.0.17763.9020windows_server_2019_server_core_installation >= 10.0.17763.0 < 10.0.17763.9020windows_server_2022 >= 10.0.20348.0 < 10.0.20348.5386windows_server_2025 >= 10.0.26100.0 < 10.0.26100.33158windows_server_2025_server_core_installation >= 10.0.26100.0 < 10.0.26100.33158Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.
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