CVE-2016-0050: Microsoft Windows Server 2008

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 17.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Network Policy Server (NPS) in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1 and Server 2012 Gold and R2 misparses username queries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (RADIUS authentication outage) via crafted requests, aka "Network Policy Server RADIUS Implementation Denial of Service Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008: affected versions not specified; version r2 only
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012: affected versions not specified; version r2 only

Published 2016-02-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.