Summary
Impact: Denial of Service. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is network (AV:N). How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
As an authenticated user, the attacker could send a specially crafted string of data over the network, causing the application to crash.
Security updates
10.0.17763.6775 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5050008
10.0.20348.3091 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5049983
10.0.19044.5371 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5049981
10.0.22621.4751 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5050021
10.0.26100.2894 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5050009
10.0.25398.1369 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5049984
10.0.10240.20890 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5050013
10.0.14393.7699 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5049993
6.0.6003.23070 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5050063
6.0.6003.23070 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5050061
6.1.7601.27520 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5050049
6.1.7601.27520 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5050006
6.2.9200.25273 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5050004
6.3.9600.22371 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5050048
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.5
IP Helper Denial of Service Vulnerability
IP Helper Denial of Service Vulnerability
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2025-21231 IP Helper Denial of Service Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21231
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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