Zero-Day Advisory

Fortinet Discovers Windows SharedAccess Denail-of-service Vulnerability

Summary

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered a Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerability on Microsoft Windows SharedAccess service.


Microsoft Windows SharedAccess is also known as Internet Connection Sharing (ICS). It provides network address translation, addressing, name resolution and/or intrusion prevention services for a home or small office network.


The DoS vulnerability can occur when a DHCP request contains the DHCP message type DHCP_MESSAGE_DECLINE while there is no valid DHCP_OPTION_REQUESTEDIPADDR embedded in the same DHCP request.

Solutions

Users should apply the solution provided by Microsoft.


Timeline

Fortinet reported the vulnerability to Microsoft on September 15, 2022

Microsoft confirmed the vulnerability on September 23, 2022

Microsoft released a patch for the vulnerability on December 13, 2022

References

Acknowledgement

This vulnerability was discovered by Wayne Low of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.

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