CVE-2016-0050 (GCVE-0-2016-0050)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-02-10 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 22:08
VLAI
Summary
Network Policy Server (NPS) in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1 and Server 2012 Gold and R2 misparses username queries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (RADIUS authentication outage) via crafted requests, aka "Network Policy Server RADIUS Implementation Denial of Service Vulnerability."
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034986 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MS
Date Public
2016-02-09 00:00
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