MSRC-CVE-2026-72928 — Windows DNS Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Summary

Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.

Details

According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to win a race condition.

Security updates
10.0.26100.33438 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5122871

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.5

CVE-2026-72928

Windows DNS Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Use after free in Windows DNS allows an authorized attacker to execute code over a network.

Microsoft Windows Server 2025 Windows Server 2025 (Server Core installation) Windows

Sep 8, 2026

Revision history

2026-09-08 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2026-72928 Windows DNS Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-72928
Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss