CVE tracker
Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) Spoofing Vulnerability
CVE-2026-96222High 7.4
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Information from Microsoft (Patch Tuesday October 2026)
- Severity (Microsoft)
- Critical
- Impact
- Spoofing – Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS)
- Status on Patch Tuesday
- Neither exploited nor publicly disclosed
- Exploitability assessment
- Exploitation less likely
- Product family
- Windows, Windows ESU (Extended Security Updates), Developer tools (.NET, Visual Studio …), Other
- Updates (KB)
- KB5126651, KB5126655, KB5126646, KB5126868, KB5126836, KB5127689
Public exploits
PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit and Exploit-DB list nothing for this CVE.
Original description (NVD)
Improper certificate validation in Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) allows an unauthorized attacker to perform spoofing over a network.
NVD references (1)
Sources
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- CISA Vulnrichment – CISA assessment (SSVC) in the official CVE record
- FIRST EPSS – probability of exploitation
- Microsoft MSRC – Patch Tuesday: vulnerabilities, severity, updates
- PoC-in-GitHub – public proof-of-concept repositories
- Metasploit (Rapid7) – modules of the Metasploit Framework
- Exploit-DB (OffSec) – archive of public exploits (links only)
- Patch days: official vendor pages (linked per vendor) (Vendor patch days)
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