Microsoft security update for CVE-2026-96177 — Windows Server 2025
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products2
- Windows Server 2025
- Windows Server 2025 (Server Core installation)
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 1 KB article and 1 other update
2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| KB5131080 | Security Update | 10.0.26100.33822 |
| — | Security Hotpatch Update | 10.0.26100.33730 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2026-96177
- EchelonGraph score
- 8.1 HIGH
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
Use after free in DNS Server allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network.
Published by Microsoft Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2026-96177, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).