highCVSS 8.8Vulnerability

CVE-2026-96235

## Executive summary Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability in Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Runtime (WPF). This advisory also provides guidance on what developers can do to update their applications to remove this vulnerability. Crafted WPF pixel-shader bytecode can desynchronize the two parsing passes in `CPSTrans::Initialize`, causing heap out-of-bounds writes or reads. ## Announcement Announcement for this issue can be found at https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/483 ## CVSS Details - **Version:** 3.1 - **Severity:** High - **Score:** 8.8 - **Vector:** `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H` - **Weakness:** CWE-787 (Out-of-bounds Write) ## Affected Platforms - **Platforms:** Windows - **Architectures:** All ## <a name="affected-packages"></a>Affected Packages The vulnerability affects Microsoft .NET projects that use an affected package version listed below. Package name | Affected version | Patched version ------------ | ---------------- | --------------- [Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Runtime.win-arm64](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Runtime.win-arm64) | >= 8.0.0, <= 8.0.31 | 8.0.32 [Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Runtime.win-x64](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Runtime.win-x64) | >= 8.0.0, <= 8.0.31 | 8.0.32 [Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Runtime.win-x86](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Runtime.win-x86) | >= 8.0.0, <= 8.0.31 | 8.0.32 [Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Runtime.win-arm64](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Runtime.win-arm64) | >= 10.0.0, <= 10.0.12 | 10.0.13 [Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Runtime.win-x64](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Runtime.win-x64) | >= 10.0.0, <= 10.0.12 | 10.0.13 [Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Runtime.win-x86](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Runtime.win-x86) | >= 10.0.0, <= 10.0.12 | 10.0.1

Properties

summary
Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2026-96235 - .NET and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
severity
high
cvss_score
8.8
retrieved_at
2026-10-14T00:18:40+00:00
ghsa_published
2026-10-13T20:45:50Z
source_url
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g44w-h65v-4cw9
ghsa_updated
2026-10-13T20:45:52Z
ghsa_id
GHSA-g44w-h65v-4cw9
last_source
GitHub Advisory Database
cve_id
CVE-2026-96235
cvss_vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
signal_observed_at
2026-10-14T00:11:18+00:00
is_ghsa_only
false

Related Entities (8)

HAS_WEAKNESS (1)

→[Weakness]Out-of-bounds Write

REPORTED_BY (1)

→[Source]GitHub Advisory Database

VULNERABLE_TO (3)

←[Software]nuget/Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Runtime.win-x86
←[Software]nuget/Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Runtime.win-arm64
←[Software]nuget/Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Runtime.win-x64

AFFECTS (3)

→[Software]nuget/Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Runtime.win-x86
→[Software]nuget/Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Runtime.win-x64
→[Software]nuget/Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Runtime.win-arm64

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