CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-0736

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2019-08-14 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-08-14
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-787

Description

A memory corruption vulnerability exists in the Windows DHCP client when an attacker sends specially crafted DHCP responses to a client. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code on the client machine. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker could send specially crafted DHCP responses to a client. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Windows DHCP clients handle certain DHCP responses.

Affected configurations

• microsoft windows 10 • microsoft windows 10 1607 • microsoft windows 10 1703 • microsoft windows 10 1709 • microsoft windows 10 1803 • microsoft windows 7 • microsoft windows 8.1 • microsoft windows rt 8.1 • microsoft windows server 2008 • microsoft windows server 2008 r2 • microsoft windows server 2012 • microsoft windows server 2012 r2 • microsoft windows server 2016 • microsoft windows server 2016 1803

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References