Oct 2026: Windows Internet Information Services Denial of Service Vulnerability
CVE-2026-97830 Published on October 13, 2026

Windows Internet Information Services Denial of Service Vulnerability
Double free in Windows Internet Information Services allows an unauthorized attacker to deny service over a network.

Vendor Advisory NVD

Weakness Type

What is a Double-free Vulnerability?

The product calls free() twice on the same memory address, potentially leading to modification of unexpected memory locations. When a program calls free() twice with the same argument, the program's memory management data structures become corrupted. This corruption can cause the program to crash or, in some circumstances, cause two later calls to malloc() to return the same pointer. If malloc() returns the same value twice and the program later gives the attacker control over the data that is written into this doubly-allocated memory, the program becomes vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack.

CVE-2026-97830 has been classified to as a Double-free vulnerability or weakness.


Products Associated with CVE-2026-97830

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Affected Versions

Microsoft Windows 11 version 23H2: Microsoft Windows 11 Version 23H2: Microsoft Windows 11 Version 24H2: Microsoft Windows 11 Version 25H2: Microsoft Windows 11 version 26H1: Microsoft Windows 11 Version 26H2: Microsoft Windows Server 2022: Microsoft Windows Server 2025: Microsoft Windows Server 2025 (Server Core installation):