CVE-2016-0050 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2016-0050?

CVE-2016-0050 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Server 2008, published on 10 Feb 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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."

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-0050?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2012.

How do I fix CVE-2016-0050?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-0050 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2016-0050 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-0050 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Microsoft Windows Server 2008 vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-xjxg-cjfr-wxm6.