Summary
Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Critical. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation More Likely. 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
10.0.26300.9711 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5127648
6.2.9200.26434 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126835
6.3.9600.23470 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126836
10.0.14393.9612 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126868
10.0.17763.9376 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126651
10.0.19044.7807 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126657
10.0.26100.33650 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126646
10.0.28000.3231 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5127646
10.0.20348.5761 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126655
10.0.22631.7652 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126653
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.1
Windows Active Directory Domain Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Incorrect authorization in Active Directory Domain Services allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network.
Revision history
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#2
Updated an acknowledgement. This is an informational change only.
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2026-70229 Windows Active Directory Domain Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-70229
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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