Denial of Service Vulnerability in Windows Standards-Based Storage Management Service by Microsoft
CVE-2025-27486

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Microsoft
Status
Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2019 (server Core Installation)
Windows Server 2022
Windows Server 2025 (server Core Installation)
Vendor
CVE Published:
8 April 2025

Summary

The Windows Standards-Based Storage Management Service is vulnerable to uncontrolled resource consumption, enabling unauthorized attackers to disrupt service across a network. By exploiting this vulnerability, malicious entities can initiate a denial of service, potentially compromising the availability of resources dependent on this service. This emphasizes the importance of monitoring and securing network services to mitigate such threats.

Affected Version(s)

Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Core installation) x64-based Systems 6.3.9600.0 < 6.3.9600.22523

Windows Server 2012 R2 x64-based Systems 6.3.9600.0 < 6.3.9600.22523

Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation) x64-based Systems 10.0.14393.0 < 10.0.14393.7970

References

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE...
vendor-advisory

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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