Summary
Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Critical. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
An unauthenticated attacker on the same local network could exploit this vulnerability by advertising a specially crafted network device to an affected system with network device discovery enabled. Successful exploitation could allow the attacker to execute code on the affected system without user interaction.
Security updates
10.0.14393.9688 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5131291
10.0.17763.9487 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5131085
10.0.19044.7846 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5131096
10.0.22631.7711 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5131087
10.0.26100.9974 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5132061
10.0.26100.9911 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5132043
10.0.28000.3501 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5132059
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.8
Windows Network Connected Devices Auto-Setup Service Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Heap-based buffer overflow in Windows Network Connected Devices Auto-Setup Service allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over an adjacent network.
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2026-125136 Windows Network Connected Devices Auto-Setup Service Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-125136
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Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
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Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
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Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss