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New Win-DDoS Flaws Let Attackers Turn Public Domain Controllers into DDoS Botnet via RPC, LDAP

The Hacker Newsby @TheHackersNews ()4 min read3 · 1 read
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Vulnerabilities mentioned

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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2024-49113
Unauthenticated LDAP Denial-of-Service in Microsoft Windows
7.583%
CVE-2025-26673
Uncontrolled resource consumption in Windows LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol allows an unauthorized attacker to deny service over a network
7.52%
CVE-2025-32724
Uncontrolled resource consumption in Windows Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) allows an unauthorized attacker to deny service over a network
7.52%
CVE-2025-49716
Uncontrolled resource consumption in Windows Netlogon allows an unauthorized attacker to deny service over a network
7.51%
CVE-2025-49722
Uncontrolled resource consumption in Windows Print Spooler Components allows an authorized attacker to deny service over an adjacent network
5.7<1%

From the original article

4 min read at thehackernews.com

 Ravie Lakshmanan  Aug 10, 2025 Vulnerability / Network Security A novel attack technique could be weaponized to rope thousands of public domain controllers (DCs) around the world to create a malicious botnet and use it to conduct powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

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