Summary
Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Critical. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation More Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
An unauthenticated attacker could use a specially crafted application to leverage a cryptographic protocol vulnerability in Kerberos Key Distribution Center Proxy Service to perform remote code execution against the target.
Are all Windows Servers affected by this vulnerability?
This vulnerability only affects Windows Servers that are configured as a [MS-KKDCP]: Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC) Proxy Protocol server. Domain controllers are not affected.
According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to win a race condition.
Security updates
10.0.17763.7434 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5060531
10.0.20348.3807 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5060526
10.0.20348.3745 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5060525
10.0.26100.4349 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5060842
10.0.26100.4270 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5060841
10.0.25398.1665 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5060118
10.0.14393.8148 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5061010
6.2.9200.25522 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5061059
6.3.9600.22620 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5061018
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.1CVE-2025-33071 EPSS 23%
Windows KDC Proxy Service (KPSSVC) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Use after free in Windows KDC Proxy Service (KPSSVC) allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network.
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2025-33071 Windows KDC Proxy Service (KPSSVC) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-33071
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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