{"cve":"CVE-2025-55234","nvd":{"published":"2025-09-09T17:16:06.503","modified":"2026-06-17T09:41:30.400","status":"Modified","description":"SMB Server might be susceptible to relay attacks depending on the configuration. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could perform relay attacks and make the users subject to elevation of privilege attacks.\nThe SMB Server already supports mechanisms for hardening against relay attacks:\n\nSMB Server signing\nSMB Server Extended Protection for Authentication (EPA)\n\nMicrosoft is releasing this CVE to provide customers with audit capabilities to help them to assess their environment and to identify any potential device or software incompatibility issues before deploying SMB Server hardening measures that protect against relay attacks.\nIf you have not already enabled SMB Server hardening measures, we advise customers to take the following actions to be protected from these relay attacks:\n\nAssess your environment by utilizing the audit capabilities that we are exposing in the September 2025 security updates.  See Support for Audit Events to deploy SMB Server Hardening—SMB Server Signing & SMB Server EPA.\nAdopt appropriate SMB Server hardening measures.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":9.8},"cwes":["CWE-287"],"references":["https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-55234","https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-55234-detection-script-smb-server-vulnerability-affecting-microsoft-systems","https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-55234-mitigation-script-smb-server-vulnerability-affecting-microsoft-systems"],"products":["microsoft:windows_10_1507","microsoft:windows_10_1607","microsoft:windows_10_1809","microsoft:windows_10_21h2","microsoft:windows_10_22h2","microsoft:windows_11_22h2","microsoft:windows_11_23h2","microsoft:windows_11_24h2","microsoft:windows_server_2008","microsoft:windows_server_2012","microsoft:windows_server_2016","microsoft:windows_server_2019","microsoft:windows_server_2022","microsoft:windows_server_2022_23h2","microsoft:windows_server_2025"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:08:41.295252406+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-55234","score":0.20599,"percentile":0.97519,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}