Microsoft Security Response Center guidance
Vendor revision: Nov 14, 2026Release Notes
Vulnerability intelligence
CVE-2026-63540 and is rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 6.9. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.
Release Notes
Heap-based buffer overflow for some Hyperscan before version v5.4.2.1 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow a denial of service. Unprivileged software adversary with an unauthenticated user combined with a low complexity attack may enable denial of service.
This result may potentially occur via local access when attack requirements are not present without special internal knowledge and requires passive user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (none), integrity (low) and availability (high) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts.
Source: NVD