CVE-2026-44811
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Use After Free in Windows DWM Core Library Allows Privilege Escalation
Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-44811, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-06-09
Last updated on: 2026-06-12
Assigner: Microsoft Corporation
Description
Description
Use after free in Windows DWM Core Library allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| microsoft | windows_11_26h1 | to 10.0.28000.2269 (exc) |
| microsoft | windows_11_26h1 | to 10.0.28000.2269 (exc) |
Helpful Resources
Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-20 | The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. |
| CWE-416 | The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer. |
| CWE-122 | A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). |
