A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Windows. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is some unknown processing of the component Kerberos. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality.

The weakness was released 01/14/2025 as confirmed security update guide (Website). The advisory is shared for download at msrc.microsoft.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-21242. The exploitability is told to be difficult. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 01/25/2025). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

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• Operating System

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• Microsoft

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• Windows

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• 10
• 10 21H2
• 10 22H2
• 10 1607
• 10 1809
• 11 22H2
• 11 23H2
• 11 24H2
• Server 2008 R2 SP1
• Server 2012
• Server 2012 R2
• Server 2016
• Server 2019
• Server 2022
• Server 2022 23H2
• Server 2025

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• commercial

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