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critical 9.8

CVE-2019-0726 in the critical feed json

A memory corruption vulnerability exists in the Windows DHCP client when an attacker sends specially crafted DHCP responses to a client, ak…

published 7y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-1486

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
54.5%
EPSS 54.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A memory corruption vulnerability exists in the Windows DHCP client when an attacker sends specially crafted DHCP responses to a client, aka 'Windows DHCP Client Remote Code Execution Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2019-0697, CVE-2019-0698.

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Exploit prediction

54.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • Microsoft Windows
  • Microsoft Windows Server

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Sources

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