Summary
Impact: Information Disclosure. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability?
An attacker running in a restricted app environment could view portions of private image data previously handled by the thumbnail service outside that environment. The vulnerability does not provide unrestricted access to arbitrary files or credentials.
According to the CVSS metric, attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation requires the thumbnail service to have processed private image data and later reuse related memory for the attacker's thumbnail request. The attacker cannot assume that this combination of prior activity and memory reuse will occur.
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
10.0.20348.5870 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5131090
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
10.0.26100.33822 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5131080
10.0.26100.33730 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5131077
10.0.28000.3501 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5132059
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 5.6
Microsoft Windows Codecs Library Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Use of uninitialized resource in Microsoft Windows Codecs Library allows an authorized attacker to disclose information locally.
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2026-96150 Microsoft Windows Codecs Library Information Disclosure Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-96150
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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