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The afd.sys tag on WindowsForum.com covers security advisories and discussions about the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock, a kernel-mode networking component. Recent threads focus on multiple elevation-of-privilege vulnerabilities, including CVE-2026-70307, CVE-2026-68820, CVE-2026-45603, CVE-2026-45598, CVE-2026-33099, CVE-2026-33100, CVE-2026-26177, and CVE-2026-26173. Topics include patch urgency, Microsoft's confidence metrics, local attack vectors, use-after-free issues, and CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The content is aimed at Windows administrators and security professionals needing to prioritize updates and understand the risk of these kernel-level flaws.
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    CVE-2026-70307: Patch Windows AFD Privilege Escalation Flaw

    Microsoft has published CVE-2026-70307, an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock, the kernel-mode component commonly associated with afd.sys. The immediate action for administrators is to deploy the applicable August 11, 2026 Windows security...
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    CVE-2026-68820: Windows Flaw Is Exploited, Patch Unlisted

    CISA has added CVE-2026-20349 in Cisco Secure Firewall ASA and FTD, CVE-2026-68820 in Microsoft Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock, and CVE-2026-72898 in Metabase to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, marking all three as actively exploited. For Windows administrators, the...
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    CVE-2026-45603 AFD.sys Local Privilege Escalation: Patch Now for Windows

    Microsoft has identified CVE-2026-45603 as a Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock elevation-of-privilege vulnerability, published through the MSRC Security Update Guide on June 9, 2026, affecting Windows systems where a local authorized attacker could potentially move from ordinary...
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    CVE-2026-45598 AFD.sys Fix: Local EoP Risk in Windows WinSock Ancillary Driver

    Microsoft disclosed CVE-2026-45598 on June 9, 2026, as an Important-rated Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock elevation-of-privilege vulnerability that allows an authorized local attacker to raise privileges on affected Windows systems. The dry phrasing is easy to skim past in a Patch...
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    CVE-2026-33099: AFD.sys Windows Kernel EoP—Patch Fast, Investigate Quietly

    CVE-2026-33099 has been identified by Microsoft as a Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock elevation-of-privilege issue, but the public record is still thin on the sort of technical detail defenders usually want first. That combination matters: Microsoft is signaling that the flaw is...
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    CVE-2026-33100 AFD.sys Windows Local Privilege Escalation: Patch Now

    Microsoft’s CVE-2026-33100 advisory for the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock is another reminder that the most operationally important Windows flaws are often the ones that never generate splashy headlines. The public record currently describes a use-after-free issue that lets an...
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    CVE-2026-26177 AFD.sys EoP: Why Microsoft’s Confidence Metric Matters

    Microsoft’s CVE-2026-26177 entry is exactly the kind of Windows security advisory that defenders need to read twice: it is an elevation-of-privilege issue in the Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock layer, and Microsoft’s own confidence metric is designed to tell you how certain the company is...
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    CVE-2026-26173 AFD.sys: Microsoft Confidence Metric and Patch Urgency

    Understanding CVE-2026-26173 and Microsoft’s AFD.sys Confidence Metric Microsoft’s CVE-2026-26173 entry points to a familiar but still dangerous Windows pattern: a kernel-adjacent privilege-escalation issue in the Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (AFD.sys), the long-lived networking...
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    Patch CVE-2025-60719: High Risk AFD WinSock Local Privilege Escalation in Windows

    Microsoft has published a security update for CVE-2025-60719, an untrusted pointer dereference in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (afd.sys) that can be abused by a local, authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges; administrators should treat this as a high-priority...
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    CVE-2025-62213 Use-After-Free in afd.sys: Patch Windows Local Privilege Escalation Now

    Microsoft has recorded CVE-2025-62213 as a use‑after‑free elevation‑of‑privilege in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (afd.sys), a kernel‑mode networking component, and administrators are urged to apply the vendor's security update immediately to close a local post‑compromise...
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    CVE-2025-62217 Local Privilege Escalation in AFD WinSock Race Condition

    Microsoft’s security channels added CVE-2025-62217 to the public record on November 11, 2025: the flaw is a race condition in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (afd.sys) that can be abused by an authenticated local actor to elevate privileges on affected Windows hosts. Background...
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    CVE-2025-58714: Local Privilege Escalation in Windows AFD WinSock Driver

    Microsoft’s security channels added CVE-2025-58714 to the record this week: an elevation‑of‑privilege weakness in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (the afd.sys stack) that — if left unpatched on an affected host — lets a locally authorized attacker raise their process context to...
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    CVE-2025-54099: Windows AFD.sys Stack Overflow Privilege Escalation Explained

    Microsoft’s advisory identifies a vulnerability in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (afd.sys) that can be triggered locally to escalate privileges — described on the vendor page as a buffer overflow in the WinSock ancillary driver — and administrators must treat this as a...
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    CVE-2025-53718: Windows AFD.sys UAF Privilege Escalation — Patch, Detect, Harden

    Microsoft’s Security Update Guide entry for CVE-2025-53718 describes a use‑after‑free (UAF) flaw in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (AFD.sys) that can be triggered by a locally authorized user to obtain elevated privileges on affected Windows hosts — a kernel‑level...
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    AFD.sys Null Pointer Dereference: Local EoP to SYSTEM - Patch Now

    Microsoft’s Security Response Guide flags a null-pointer dereference in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (AFD.sys) that, when reached by a local, authorized user, can be weaponized into an elevation‑of‑privilege to SYSTEM — a high‑impact kernel vulnerability that demands...
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    Understanding CVE-2025-53147: AFD.sys Use-After-Free Privilege Escalation

    A use‑after‑free vulnerability in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (AFD.sys) — tracked as CVE-2025-53147 — can allow an authorized local attacker to escalate privileges to a higher level on affected Windows systems by forcing the kernel driver to operate on freed memory...
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    CVE-2025-53141: Null Pointer in AFD.sys Enables Local SYSTEM Elevation (WinSock)

    Microsoft’s advisory confirms that a null pointer dereference in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (AFD.sys) can be triggered by a locally authorized attacker to elevate privileges to SYSTEM, creating a high-impact local elevation-of-privilege (EoP) risk for affected Windows...
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    CVE-2025-53137: Windows AFD.sys Use-After-Free Privilege Escalation

    A use‑after‑free vulnerability in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (AFD.sys), tracked as CVE-2025-53137, can be abused by an authorized local user to escalate privileges to SYSTEM on affected Windows hosts — a high‑impact kernel vulnerability that follows a string of similar AFD...
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    WinSock AFD Race Condition: What Sysadmins Must Do Now (CVE-2025-53134)

    Title: What sysadmins need to know about the WinSock AFD race-condition EoP entry you sent (CVE-2025-53134) — situation, risk, and what to do now Executive summary You sent the MSRC URL for CVE-2025-53134 (Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock — race condition / improper synchronization...
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    CVE-2025-49762: AFD.sys Race Condition Enables Local Privilege Escalation

    A recently published Microsoft advisory warns that CVE-2025-49762 — a race-condition flaw in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (AFD.sys) — can allow a locally authorized attacker to elevate privileges by exploiting concurrent execution using a shared resource with improper...
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