Summary
Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Unlikely. Customer action: Required.
Details
According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does this mean for this vulnerability?
An attacker would need specific conditions to be in place (i.e. particular protocol settings, or configurations, etc.) before an attack could succeed, which reduces the likelihood of widespread or opportunistic exploitation.
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.
Security updates
10.0.26100.33296 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5120233
10.0.26100.33222 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5120228
10.0.26200.9168 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5121003
10.0.26200.9106 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5120994
10.0.28000.2704 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5121000
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.0
Windows DHCP Client Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Use after free in Windows DHCP Client allows an authorized attacker to execute code locally.
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2026-61361 Windows DHCP Client Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-61361
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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