CVE-2019-1213
Windows DHCP Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- microsoft
Description
A memory corruption vulnerability exists in the Windows Server DHCP service when an attacker sends specially crafted packets to a DHCP server. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code on the DHCP server. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker could send a specially crafted packet to a DHCP server. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how DHCP servers handle network packets.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| microsoftCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.2% · top 8.9% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
- Remote Code Execution
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-787 and its CVEs
Affected products
Microsoft · Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2
- affected 6.0.0 – < publication
Microsoft · Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (Server Core installation)
- affected 6.0.0 – < publication
Microsoft · Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2
- affected 6.0.0 – < publication
References (1)
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-1213 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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