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CVE Number Vulnerability Product Severity Date
MS13-066 Vulnerability in Active Directory Federation Services Could Allow Information Disclosure (2873872) Active Directory Important 14-08-2013

Technical Information

Brief overview of the risk:
This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS). The vulnerability could reveal information pertaining to the service account used by AD FS. An attacker could then attempt logons from outside the corporate network, which would result in account lockout of the service account used by AD FS if an account lockout policy has been configured. This would result in denial of service for all applications relying on the AD FS instance.
Detailed Information on the risk:

An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) that could allow the unintentional disclosure of account information.


Further information on this exploit is available at : MS13-066

Affected Software

Active Directory Federation Services 2.1
Active Directory Federation Services 2.0
Active Directory Federation Services 1.x