Summary
Impact: Denial of Service. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
According to the CVSS metrics, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to major loss of availability (A:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
An attacker can send specially crafted packets which could affect availability of the service and result in Denial of Service (DoS).
According to the CVSS score, the attack vector is adjacent (AV:A). What does this mean for this vulnerability?
This attack is limited to systems connected to the same network segment as the attacker. The attack cannot be performed across multiple networks (for example, a WAN) and would be limited to systems on the same network switch or virtual network.
Security updates
10.0.17763.6893 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5052000
10.0.20348.3207 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5051979
10.0.20348.3148 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5052106
10.0.19044.5487 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5051974
10.0.22621.4890 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5051989
10.0.26100.3194 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5051987
10.0.26100.3107 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5052105
10.0.25398.1425 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5051980
10.0.14393.7785 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5052006
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 6.5
Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) Denial of Service Vulnerability
Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) Denial of Service Vulnerability
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2025-21216 Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) Denial of Service Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21216
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Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
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Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
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Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss