CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2026-20859
High (7.8) in microsoft. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Use after free in Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 41% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-416
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- microsoft:windows_11_24h2
- microsoft:windows_11_25h2
- microsoft:windows_server_2025