Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1809)

CVE-2026-20810
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.49 % · percentile 42 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
microsoft
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

Free of memory not on the heap in Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-590 — Free of Memory not on the Heap

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:Cmicrosoft
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · secure@microsoft.com (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 1809affected 10.0.17763.0 < 10.0.17763.8276
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 21H2affected 10.0.19044.0 < 10.0.19044.6809
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 22H2affected 10.0.19045.0 < 10.0.19045.6809
Microsoft · Windows Server 2019affected 10.0.17763.0 < 10.0.17763.8276
Microsoft · Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)affected 10.0.17763.0 < 10.0.17763.8276

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD