Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessLure victim to malicious NFS server
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ExploitSend crafted NFS responses
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ExecutionTrigger out-of-bounds read in NFS client
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ImpactLeak adjacent memory over network
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 | Requires the optional 'Client for NFS' (Services for NFS client) feature to be installed and enabled on the target Windows host - this is NOT present in a default Windows installation, which substantially limits the exposed population. Per CVSS UI:R, exploitation also requires user interaction: the victim must initiate or be induced to connect to / mount an attacker-controlled or spoofed NFS resource, so the attacker cannot trigger the OOB read purely remotely without that connection. No authentication is required on the target (PR:N). Impact is limited to disclosure of process memory (C:H, I:N/A:N) - no code execution, integrity, or availability loss. |
| Impact | This is a moderate-severity information-disclosure flaw (CVSS 6.5, CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N) rather than a top-tier priority. The signals are internally consistent and point AWAY from urgent patching: although the CVSS vector is network-based and unauthenticated (PR:N), it requires user interaction (UI:R), and impact is confined to confidentiality (C:H/I:N/A:N) with scope unchanged. CISA's SSVC framework reinforces low urgency - Exploitation: none, Automatable: no, Technical Impact: partial. There is no CISA KEV listing and no public exploit identified. No EPSS score was provided in the input, so probabilistic exploitation likelihood cannot be quantified here. The 'Buffer Overflow' tag is somewhat misleading: the underlying weakness is CWE-125 (out-of-bounds READ) driving disclosure, not a memory-corruption/RCE overflow, so the tag should not be read as implying code execution. Net: a real but low-priority issue - a memory-disclosure bug requiring the victim to interact with an attacker-controlled NFS resource, best handled in normal Patch Tuesday cadence. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker stands up a malicious NFS server (or spoofs responses to an existing share) and lures a Windows host running the Client for NFS into connecting to it. Crafted NFS responses trigger an out-of-bounds read in the client, leaking adjacent process memory back over the network to the attacker. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 14, 2026
An out-of-bounds read in the Windows Client for NFS (the optional Services for NFS client component) allows a remote attacker to leak contents of process memory from an affected Windows host, yielding information disclosure only with no code execution, integrity, or availability impact. Because the feature is not present in a default Windows installation, the exposed population is limited to hosts where the NFS client has been explicitly installed, and per the assessed vector (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N, 6.5) exploitation also requires user interaction - the victim must initiate or be induced into connecting to or mounting an attacker-controlled or spoofed NFS resource, though no authentication is required on the target. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, CISA's SSVC assessment rates exploitation as 'none' with automatable 'no' and technical impact 'partial', and Microsoft has released a vendor patch.
RemediationAI
Patch available per vendor advisory: Microsoft has released fixes for this issue, distributed through the standard Windows Update / Microsoft Update Catalog channels, so the primary action is to apply the latest cumulative security update for each affected branch - for example the builds at or above the upper bounds in the EUVD ranges, such as 10.0.26100.33650 for Windows Server 2025 and 10.0.26100.9711 for Windows 11 24H2 - and to verify installed build numbers against the MSRC update guide (https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-69940). Because exploitation requires the optional Client for NFS feature to be present and requires a victim to connect to an attacker-controlled server, the most effective compensating control where patching cannot be completed immediately is to remove the attack surface entirely: uninstall the Client for NFS component from 'Turn Windows features on or off' (or via DISM /Disable-Feature /FeatureName:ServicesForNFS-ClientOnly) - the trade-off is that any legitimate NFS mounts, including automated scripts and applications relying on NFS shares, will stop working. If the client must remain installed, block outbound TCP/UDP 2049 and the associated portmapper/rpcbind and mountd ports to untrusted networks at the host firewall so a client cannot be induced to reach an attacker-controlled NFS server, and restrict or monitor user-initiated mount operations; both measures reduce the user-interaction precondition but will break access to legitimate NFS servers outside the allowed perimeter. Note that there is no evidence of active exploitation (SSVC 'Exploitation: none') and no public exploit code identified at time of analysis, so these compensating controls should be prioritized by the presence of the NFS client feature on internet- or BYOD-adjacent segments rather than by urgency of imminent attack.
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The vulnerability is a classic out-of-bounds read (CWE-125) in Microsoft's implementation of the NFS client stack on Windows. The Client for NFS feature implements the client side of the ONC RPC / NFS protocol, including XDR-based decoding of the data structures returned by an NFS server; this class of bug typically arises when a length or count field supplied by the peer is trusted without adequate validation against the size of the buffer that actually holds the response, so the parser reads past the end of an allocated buffer. On Windows, the affected component is the NFS client provided through Services for NFS, and the CPE scope covers the Windows operating system family across the affected builds listed by ENISA EUVD (Windows 10, Windows 11 23H2/24H2/25H2/26H1/26H2, Windows Server 2012/2012 R2/2016/2019/2022/2025, including Server Core installations). Because the out-of-bounds read discloses memory rather than corrupting it, the sole impact is confidentiality (C:H) with I:N and A:N; the SSVC 'Technical Impact: partial' rating reflects this constrained, read-only consequence. The AV:N/PR:N/UI:R combination is the key nuance: the read is triggerable over the network by an attacker-controlled NFS server, but only after the victim's client initiates the connection, which is why the attack is not considered fully automatable.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Network-reachable NFS client with no auth (PR:N) but victim must connect to a malicious server (UI:R); out-of-bounds read leaks memory so C:H, with no I/A impact.
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CVSS VectorVendor: microsoft
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2DescriptionCVE.org
Out-of-bounds read in Windows Client for NFS allows an unauthorized attacker to disclose information over a network.
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Attack Technique
A buffer overflow occurs when a program writes more data to a memory buffer than it was allocated to hold, causing the excess data to spill into adjacent memory regions.
Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
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EUVD-2026-99663
GHSA-m6cj-q6rr-8gqx
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