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October 2026 CVE archive

Records last modified in NIST NVD between Oct 1 and Oct 31, 2026 (UTC). Data imported from the NVD CVE API 2.0 and the CISA KEV catalog; each record shows its own source and verification time. The modified view only includes records that were CRITICAL or CISA-KEV-listed when imported — it is not a complete list of every modification.

Published in October 2026Materially updated (Critical / KEV)
Total records
21,937
Critical
3,121
High
7,064
Medium
6,901
Low
608
Severity not reported
4,243
In CISA KEV
186

Most affected vendors (by CPE data where available): microsoft (1423), linux (722), google (413), ibm (321), oracle (193), mozilla (182), adobe (165), broadcom (118), apache (115), fabian (98)

CVESeverityCVSSKEVVendor / productPublishedModified
CVE-2026-70144
Use after free in Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem allows an authorized attacker t...
high 7.0 —Microsoft / windows 11 23h2 2026-10-132026-10-22
CVE-2026-70160
Use after free in Windows Kernel allows an authorized attacker to elevate privil...
high 7.0 —Microsoft / windows 10 1607 2026-10-132026-10-22
CVE-2026-70176
Use after free in Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem allows an authorized attacker t...
high 7.0 —Microsoft / windows 10 1607 2026-10-132026-10-22
CVE-2026-70209
Use after free in Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem allows an authorized attacker t...
high 7.0 —Microsoft / windows 10 1607 2026-10-132026-10-22
CVE-2026-70236
Use after free in Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem allows an authorized attacker t...
high 7.0 —Microsoft / windows 10 1607 2026-10-132026-10-22
CVE-2026-70243
Use after free in Windows Kernel allows an authorized attacker to elevate privil...
high 7.0 —Microsoft / windows 11 23h2 2026-10-132026-10-22
CVE-2026-70249
Use after free in Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem allows an authorized attacker t...
high 7.0 —Microsoft / windows 10 1607 2026-10-132026-10-22
CVE-2026-70253
Use after free in Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem allows an authorized attacker t...
high 7.0 —Microsoft / windows 10 1607 2026-10-132026-10-22
CVE-2026-70273
Use after free in Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem allows an authorized attacker t...
high 7.0 —Microsoft / windows 11 24h2 2026-10-132026-10-22
CVE-2026-102214
Use after free in Windows Hyper-V allows an authorized attacker to execute code...
high 8.8 —Microsoft / windows 10 1607 2026-10-132026-10-21
CVE-2026-102215
Heap-based buffer overflow in Windows Universal Disk Format File System Driver (...
high 7.8 —Microsoft / windows 10 1607 2026-10-132026-10-21
CVE-2026-102216
Access of resource using incompatible type ('type confusion') in Windows StateRe...
high 7.8 —Microsoft / windows 10 1607 2026-10-132026-10-21
CVE-2026-102217
Improper resolution of path equivalence in WebDAV allows an authorized attacker...
high 8.8 —Microsoft / windows 10 1607 2026-10-132026-10-21
CVE-2026-70285
Heap-based buffer overflow in Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem allows an authorize...
high 7.8 —Microsoft / windows 10 1607 2026-10-132026-10-21
CVE-2026-70303
Out-of-bounds write in Windows Kernel allows an authorized attacker to elevate p...
high 7.8 —Microsoft / windows 10 1607 2026-10-132026-10-21
CVE-2026-83756
Use after free in Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem allows an authorized attacker t...
high 7.8 —Microsoft / windows 10 21h2 2026-10-132026-10-21
CVE-2026-83761
Use after free in Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem allows an authorized attacker t...
high 7.8 —Microsoft / windows 10 1809 2026-10-132026-10-21
CVE-2026-83768
Heap-based buffer overflow in Windows Kernel allows an authorized attacker to el...
high 7.8 —Microsoft / windows 10 1809 2026-10-132026-10-21
CVE-2026-83867
Heap-based buffer overflow in Windows Push Notifications allows an authorized at...
high 7.8 —Microsoft / windows 10 1607 2026-10-132026-10-21
CVE-2026-83871
Heap-based buffer overflow in OpenSSH for Windows allows an authorized attacker...
high 7.0 —Microsoft / windows 10 1809 2026-10-132026-10-21
CVE-2026-83872
Incorrect conversion between numeric types in Windows TCP/IP allows an authorize...
high 7.8 —Microsoft / windows 10 1607 2026-10-132026-10-21
CVE-2026-83873
Relative path traversal in Windows Shell allows an authorized attacker to elevat...
high 7.8 —Microsoft / windows 10 1607 2026-10-132026-10-21
CVE-2026-83874
Heap-based buffer overflow in Windows Event Tracing allows an unauthorized attac...
high 8.8 —Microsoft / windows 10 1607 2026-10-132026-10-21
CVE-2026-83876
Use after free in Windows Shell allows an authorized attacker to elevate privile...
high 7.8 —Microsoft / windows 10 1607 2026-10-132026-10-21
CVE-2026-83853
Use after free in Windows Hello allows an authorized attacker to elevate privile...
high 7.0 —Microsoft / windows 10 21h2 2026-10-132026-10-21
CVE-2026-83855
Integer underflow (wrap or wraparound) in Windows WLAN Service allows an unautho...
high 7.5 —Microsoft / windows 11 23h2 2026-10-132026-10-21
CVE-2026-83856
Out-of-bounds read in Windows Event Logging Service allows an unauthorized attac...
high 8.1 —Microsoft / windows 11 23h2 2026-10-132026-10-21
CVE-2026-83857
Use after free in Windows Universal Disk Format File System Driver (UDFS) allows...
high 7.8 —Microsoft / windows 10 1607 2026-10-132026-10-21
CVE-2026-83859
Use after free in Windows NTFS allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileg...
high 7.8 —Microsoft / windows 10 1607 2026-10-132026-10-21
CVE-2026-83860
Stack-based buffer overflow in Windows GDI allows an unauthorized attacker to de...
high 7.5 —Microsoft / windows 10 1607 2026-10-132026-10-21
CVE-2026-83861
Heap-based buffer overflow in Windows Remote Desktop Protocol allows an authoriz...
high 7.8 —Microsoft / windows 10 1607 2026-10-132026-10-21
CVE-2026-83866
Use after free in Windows Win32K allows an authorized attacker to elevate privil...
high 7.0 —Microsoft / windows 10 1607 2026-10-132026-10-21
CVE-2026-70095
Heap-based buffer overflow in Windows iSCSI allows an unauthorized attacker to e...
high 7.5 —Microsoft / windows 10 1607 2026-10-132026-10-21
CVE-2026-70102
Use after free in Windows Spaceport.sys allows an authorized attacker to elevate...
high 7.8 —Microsoft / windows 10 1809 2026-10-132026-10-21
CVE-2026-70103
Heap-based buffer overflow in Windows Error Reporting allows an authorized attac...
high 7.8 —Microsoft / windows 10 1607 2026-10-132026-10-21
CVE-2026-70104
Untrusted pointer dereference in Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem allows an author...
high 7.8 —Microsoft / windows 10 1809 2026-10-132026-10-21
CVE-2026-70093
Heap-based buffer overflow in Windows Rich Text Edit Control allows an authorize...
high 7.8 —Microsoft / windows 10 1607 2026-10-132026-10-21
CVE-2026-83879
Concurrent execution using shared resource with improper synchronization ('race...
high 7.0 —Microsoft / windows 10 1607 2026-10-132026-10-21
CVE-2026-83881
Heap-based buffer overflow in Windows exFAT File System allows an authorized att...
high 7.8 —Microsoft / windows 10 1607 2026-10-132026-10-21
CVE-2026-70092
Heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft PostScript Printer Driver allows an unau...
high 7.8 —Microsoft / windows 10 1607 2026-10-132026-10-21

Sources: NIST NVD (CVE API 2.0) and the CISA KEV catalog. Severity is as stated by the source; missing values are shown as “not reported”, never estimated.