Summary
Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Critical. 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 that mean for this vulnerability?
Exploitation requires specific conditions, including particular network configurations and timing conditions, and has only been observed in limited scenarios. This means an attacker cannot reliably exploit the issue in all environments and may need favorable setup or circumstances for it to work.
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
An unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted packet to an affected service over the network. Successful exploitation could allow the attacker to execute code on the target system. No authentication or user interaction is required.
Security updates
10.0.17763.9121 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5120238
10.0.20348.5499 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5120242
10.0.20348.5440 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5120229
10.0.26100.33296 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5120233
10.0.26100.33222 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5120228
10.0.14393.9418 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5120418
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.1
Windows DNS Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Use after free in Windows DNS allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network.
Revision history
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#2
Updated software table to remove clients versions because this vulnerability only impacts Windows Servers. This is an informational change only.
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2026-65789 Windows DNS Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-65789
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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