CVE-2019-1206

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.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:Cmicrosoft
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · secure@microsoft.com (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 5.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:PNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Microsoft · Windows Server, version 1803 (Server Core Installation)affected 10.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows Server 2019affected 10.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)affected 10.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows Server, version 1903 (Server Core installation)affected 10.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows Server 2016affected 10.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation)affected 10.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows Server 2012affected 6.2.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows Server 2012 (Server Core installation)affected 6.2.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows Server 2012 R2affected 6.3.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Core installation)affected 6.3.0 < publication

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD