Summary
Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Critical. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
The attacker must inject themselves into the logical network path between the target and the resource requested by the victim to read or modify network communications. This is called a machine-in-the-middle (MITM) attack.
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
10.0.26100.3194 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5051987
10.0.26100.3107 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5052105
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.1
DHCP Client Service Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
DHCP Client Service Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
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References
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CVE-2025-21379 DHCP Client Service Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21379
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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