CVE-2026-70133 — Microsoft
HIGHCVE-2026-70133 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.5) CWE-770 vulnerability. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
Allocation of resources without limits or throttling in Windows SMB Server allows an unauthorized attacker to deny service over a network.
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2026-70133.
Description
Allocation of resources without limits or throttling in Windows SMB Server allows an unauthorized attacker to deny service over a network.
Detection & mitigation playbook
VulnerabilityDetect
Identify every host running the affected component and compare the installed build against the fixed version below — for source-built or distro-packaged software the version string, not a lockfile, is the source of truth (`dpkg -l`, `rpm -q`, or the binary's own `--version`).
Remediation status
No fixed release is recorded for CVE-2026-70133 yet. Track the upstream advisory, and apply the exposure-reduction steps below in the meantime.
Mitigate without a patch
Cap what an attacker can consume: apply request size, rate and timeout limits in front of the affected component, and run it with memory and CPU limits so exhaustion degrades one worker rather than the whole service.
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