CVE-2026-72978

Allocation of resources without limits or throttling in Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) allows an unauthorized attacker to deny service over a network.

Scoring

Severity

MEDIUM

CVSS base score

5.9

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CWE

CWE-770

Published

2026-09-08

Last modified

2026-09-09

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1607
• Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1809
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (Server Core installation)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Core installation)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation)

Weakness type

• CWE-770

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