🛡️ CVE-2026-50668 — windows-10-1607

🟡 CVSS 6.8 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-122 NVD
6.8
CVSS Score
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Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Windows NTFS allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges with a physical attack.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with physical access to the device, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-50668 is classified as CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow. A write past the end of a heap allocation corrupts allocator metadata or neighbouring objects.

Affected software

CVE-2026-50668 is recorded against 11 packages.

  • windows-10-1607 (fixed in 10.0.14393.9339)
  • windows-10-1809 (fixed in 10.0.17763.9020)
  • windows-10-21h2 (fixed in 10.0.19044.7548)
  • windows-10-22h2 (fixed in 10.0.19045.7548)
  • windows-11-24h2 (fixed in 10.0.26100.8875)
  • windows-11-25h2 (fixed in 10.0.26200.8875)
  • windows-11-26h1 (fixed in 10.0.28000.2525)
  • windows-server-2016 (fixed in 10.0.14393.9339)
  • windows-server-2019 (fixed in 10.0.17763.9020)
  • windows-server-2022 (fixed in 10.0.20348.5386)
  • windows-server-2025 (fixed in 10.0.26100.33158)

Timeline and source

Published on 14 July 2026 and last revised on 22 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

msrc.microsoft.com

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-122
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-07-14
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-07-22

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
windows-10-1607 10.0.14393.9339
windows-10-1809 10.0.17763.9020
windows-10-21h2 10.0.19044.7548
windows-10-22h2 10.0.19045.7548
windows-11-24h2 10.0.26100.8875
windows-11-25h2 10.0.26200.8875
windows-11-26h1 10.0.28000.2525
windows-server-2016 10.0.14393.9339
windows-server-2019 10.0.17763.9020
windows-server-2022 10.0.20348.5386
windows-server-2025 10.0.26100.33158

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