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CVE-2016-0050

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 17.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-02-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

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."

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008: r2-sp1
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012: r2

References

• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034986
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2016/ms16-021
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034986
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2016/ms16-021

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