Windows DHCP Server Denial of Service Vulnerability
At a glance
Severity
HIGH 7.5
EPSS
EPSS 5.30 % · percentile 93 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
microsoft
NVD status
Modified
Description
A memory corruption vulnerability exists in the Windows Server DHCP service when an attacker sends specially crafted packets to a DHCP failover server. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could cause the DHCP service to become nonresponsive.
To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker could send a specially crafted packet to a DHCP server. However, the DHCP server must be set to failover mode for the attack to succeed.
The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how DHCP failover servers handle network packets.