Critical (9.8) in microsoft. EPSS 4.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A memory corruption vulnerability exists in the Windows DHCP client when an attacker sends specially crafted DHCP responses to a client. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code on the client machine.
To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker could send specially crafted DHCP responses to a client.
The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Windows DHCP clients handle certain DHCP responses.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
9.8 critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
4.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 90% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)