Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessObtain low-privilege network credentials
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ExploitReach LSASS over the network
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ExecutionSend malformed request triggering out-of-bounds read
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ImpactCrash LSASS and deny service
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Bounds checking, read limits
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Collection The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires the attacker to hold valid low-privilege credentials (PR:L) and network reachability to the target host's LSASS service; no user interaction is needed (UI:N). The specific trigger is a crafted request that forces an out-of-bounds read in LSASS, producing a denial of service. The principal limiting factor is the authentication requirement - anonymous/unauthenticated attackers cannot exploit this per the CVSS vector - so exposure is largely confined to attackers who already have a foothold or valid accounts on the network; impact is limited to availability, with no confidentiality or integrity consequence. |
| Impact | This is a moderate-severity, low-urgency issue rather than an emergency. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H, 6.5 MEDIUM) describes a network-reachable but authenticated (PR:L) denial-of-service against Windows LSASS, with impact limited strictly to availability (C:N/I:N) - there is no code execution or data exposure. CISA's SSVC decision framework reinforces low priority: Exploitation=none (no observed or public exploitation), Automatable=no, Technical Impact=partial. There is no CISA KEV listing and no POC reported in the provided data, so exploitation status is 'no public exploit identified at time of analysis.' EPSS was not supplied, so exploitation probability cannot be quantified here. Signals are internally consistent - a medium CVSS, SSVC 'none/no/partial,' and absence of KEV/POC all point to a genuine but non-priority patch-in-normal-cycle item. The chief caveat is the mislabeled input tags ('Information Disclosure,' 'Buffer Overflow'), which conflict with the actual impact (availability-only DoS via out-of-bounds read, CWE-125) and should not drive triage. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker who already holds valid (low-privilege) credentials on the network sends a specially crafted request to the LSASS service on a target Windows host, triggering an out-of-bounds read that crashes the subsystem. Because LSASS is critical to authentication, its failure typically forces a system reboot, denying service to legitimate users. No public exploit code is identified at time of analysis, and the attack yields no data disclosure or code execution. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 14, 2026
An authenticated, network-positioned attacker can force an out-of-bounds read in the Windows Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS), crashing the service and producing a denial of service on affected Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server 2016 through 2025 builds. The vulnerability is rated 6.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H), so low-privilege valid credentials and network reachability are prerequisites; unauthenticated attackers cannot exploit it per the assessed vector, and the impact is confined to availability with no confidentiality or integrity consequence. Microsoft has published fixes via its update guide, CISA's SSVC assessment rates exploitation as none, and there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis - making this a moderate-severity, low-urgency patch-cycle item rather than an emergency.
RemediationAI
Apply the Microsoft security update for CVE-2026-83649 via Windows Update, WSUS, or the Microsoft Update Catalog, which brings systems to the fixed builds called out in the vendor data: Windows Server 2025 (and Server Core) 10.0.26100.33650; Windows Server 2022 10.0.20348.5761; Windows Server 2019 / Windows 10 1809 (and Server Core) 10.0.17763.9376; Windows Server 2016 / Windows 10 1607 (and Server Core) 10.0.14393.9612; Windows 11 23H2 10.0.22631.7652; Windows 11 24H2 10.0.26100.9711; Windows 11 25H2 10.0.26200.9711; Windows 11 26H2 10.0.26300.9711; Windows 11 26H1 10.0.28000.3231; and Windows 10 21H2/22H2 10.0.19044.7807. Confirm installation details against the MSRC update guide (https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-83649) and the NVD/EUVD records, since build applicability differs by servicing branch. Because the flaw requires valid low-privilege credentials and network access to LSASS, the most effective compensating controls until patching completes are to restrict inbound SMB (TCP 445), RPC endpoint mapper (TCP 135) and dynamic RPC ranges to trusted management subnets via host firewall or network ACLs - the trade-off being that legitimate remote administration, file shares, and domain-joined client operations from blocked segments will break - and to tighten account hygiene so that low-privilege or service accounts cannot be used from untrusted network positions. Additionally, alert on LSASS process crashes and automatic restarts (Windows Error Reporting / System log event 7031 and LSASS termination events) as a detection signal, while noting that this monitoring is detective only and does not prevent the availability impact.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
LSASS (Local Security Authority Subsystem Service) is the Windows process responsible for enforcing security policy, handling authentication packages, and managing credential and token material for interactive and network logons. This issue is a CWE-125 out-of-bounds read, meaning LSASS dereferences or copies memory beyond the bounds of an allocated buffer when handling a crafted request, which in this case terminates the process rather than exposing usable data. The CPE/version data maps the flaw across a very broad slice of the Windows servicing tree - Windows 10 1607/1809/21H2/22H2, Windows 11 23H2/24H2/25H2/26H1/26H2, and Windows Server 2016/2019/2022/2025 (including Server Core installations) - indicating a shared component in the LSASS request-handling path rather than a version-specific regression. The assessed vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H confirms the exploit is remote, low-complexity, requires only low privileges, needs no user interaction, and yields a high availability impact only. Vendor categorization tags also reference 'Buffer Overflow' and 'Information Disclosure'; while an out-of-bounds read can in principle leak adjacent memory, the authoritative assessment scores C:N, so the memory-safety defect should be treated as a crash/DoS primitive, not a demonstrated information-disclosure or remote-code-execution path.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Network-reachable (AV:N) but requires valid low-privilege credentials (PR:L); out-of-bounds read crashes LSASS for availability-only impact (A:H, C:N/I:N), with no scope change.
Primary rating from Vendor (microsoft).
CVSS VectorVendor: microsoft
Lifecycle Timeline
2DescriptionCVE.org
Out-of-bounds read in Windows Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) allows an authorized attacker to deny service over a network.
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EUVD-2026-99313
GHSA-2ww6-493v-gvfm
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