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CVE Number Vulnerability Product Severity Date
CVE-2023-50387 Denial of Service (MITRE: DNSSEC verification complexity can be exploited to exhaust CPU resources and stall DNS resolvers) Windows Server Important 19-02-2024

Technical Information

Vulnerability lies in DNSSEC verification complexity causing overuse of CPU resources resulting DNS resolvers to stop.

Patch release date: Feb 13, 2024
Further information on this vulnerability is available at  CVE-2023-50387.

Affected Software

Windows Server 2019,
Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation),
Windows Server 2022,
Windows Server 2022 (Server Core installation),
Windows Server 2022, 23H2 Edition (Server Core installation),
Windows Server 2016,
Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation),
Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1,
Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1 (Server Core installation),
Windows Server 2012,
Windows Server 2012 (Server Core installation),
Windows Server 2012 R2,
Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Core installation)