Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (Microsoft Windows 10 Version 21H2)

CVE-2026-24293
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.54 % · percentile 45 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
microsoft
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

Null pointer dereference in Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

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 21H2affected 10.0.19044.0 < 10.0.19044.7058
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 22H2affected 10.0.19045.0 < 10.0.19045.7058
Microsoft · Windows 11 version 23H2affected 10.0.22631.0 < 10.0.22631.6783
Microsoft · Windows 11 Version 23H2affected 10.0.22631.0 < 10.0.22631.6783
Microsoft · Windows 11 Version 24H2affected 10.0.26100.0 < 10.0.26100.8037
Microsoft · Windows 11 Version 25H2affected 10.0.26200.0 < 10.0.26200.8037
Microsoft · Windows 11 version 26H1affected 10.0.28000.0 < 10.0.28000.1719
Microsoft · Windows Server 2022affected 10.0.20348.0 < 10.0.20348.4893
Microsoft · Windows Server 2022, 23H2 Edition (Server Core installation)affected 10.0.25398.0 < 10.0.25398.2207
Microsoft · Windows Server 2025affected 10.0.26100.0 < 10.0.26100.32522
Microsoft · Windows Server 2025 (Server Core installation)affected 10.0.26100.0 < 10.0.26100.32522

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