# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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- Obtain operator approval before production changes. No commands or remediation were generated. This historical snapshot does not establish current applicability, a released fix or exploitation; no network or model call generated this brief.

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68820"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-11T17:05:15.930Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T20:52:47.921Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68820"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68820.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68820"
title: "Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability"
summary: "Use after free in Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.14393.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"10.0.14393.9418"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows 10 Version 1607","platforms":["32-bit Systems","x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.17763.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"10.0.17763.9121"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows 10 Version 1809","platforms":["32-bit Systems","x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.19044.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"10.0.19044.7663"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows 10 Version 21H2","platforms":["32-bit Systems","ARM64-based Systems","x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.19045.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"10.0.19045.7663"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows 10 Version 22H2","platforms":["32-bit Systems","ARM64-based Systems","x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.22631.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"10.0.22631.7517"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows 11 version 23H2","platforms":["ARM64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.22631.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"10.0.22631.7517"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows 11 Version 23H2","platforms":["x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.26100.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"10.0.26100.9168"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows 11 Version 24H2","platforms":["ARM64-based Systems","x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.26200.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"10.0.26200.9168"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows 11 Version 25H2","platforms":["ARM64-based Systems","x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.28000.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"10.0.28000.2704"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows 11 version 26H1","platforms":["ARM64-based Systems","x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"6.2.9200.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"6.2.9200.26280"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows Server 2012","platforms":["x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"6.2.9200.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"6.2.9200.26280"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows Server 2012 (Server Core installation)","platforms":["x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"6.3.9600.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"6.3.9600.23338"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows Server 2012 R2","platforms":["x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"6.3.9600.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"6.3.9600.23338"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Core installation)","platforms":["x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.14393.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"10.0.14393.9418"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows Server 2016","platforms":["x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.14393.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"10.0.14393.9418"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation)","platforms":["x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.17763.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"10.0.17763.9121"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows Server 2019","platforms":["x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.17763.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"10.0.17763.9121"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)","platforms":["x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.20348.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"10.0.20348.5499"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows Server 2022","platforms":["x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.26100.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"10.0.26100.33296"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows Server 2025","platforms":["x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.26100.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"10.0.26100.33296"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows Server 2025 (Server Core installation)","platforms":["x64-based Systems"]}]

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