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?
Exploiting this vulnerability could allow the disclosure of certain kernel memory content.
Security updates
10.0.17763.9376 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126651
10.0.19044.7807 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126657
10.0.20348.5761 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126655
10.0.22631.7652 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126653
10.0.26100.33650 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5126646
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 5.5
Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Buffer over-read in Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem allows an authorized attacker to disclose information locally.
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2026-96848 Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem Information Disclosure Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-96848
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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