Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V2 - Validation and Business Logic Resource consumption limits
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Impact The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS 7.5, EPSS 26.8%. While not RCE, disrupting storage management on servers that depend on SMI-S storage provisioning can impact storage operations, volume management, and SAN connectivity in enterprise environments. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker sends crafted requests to the storage management service, exhausting its resources. Storage provisioning operations fail, preventing new volume creation, snapshot management, and SAN operations on the affected server. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Mar 14, 2026
Windows Standards-Based Storage Management Service contains an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability allowing unauthenticated network attackers to cause denial of service. The service manages storage operations and its disruption affects storage provisioning and management on Windows servers.
Earlier versions of this analysis (1)
Remote DoS against Windows Storage Management Service via resource exhaustion disrupts storage operations on affected servers.
RemediationAI
Apply the Microsoft security update. Restrict network access to the storage management service port. Monitor service health for resource consumption anomalies.
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Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Affects 9 packages in euvd
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The Standards-Based Storage Management Service (smphost) manages SMI-S based storage operations on Windows servers. An uncontrolled resource consumption flaw allows remote attackers to exhaust service resources without authentication, causing storage management operations to fail.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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CVSS VectorNVD
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3DescriptionCVE.org
Uncontrolled resource consumption in Windows Standards-Based Storage Management Service allows an unauthorized attacker to deny service over a network.
Executive ViewAI
CVE-2025-33068 is a high-severity denial-of-service vulnerability in Windows Standards-Based Storage Management Service that allows unauthenticated network attackers to disrupt storage operations across Windows server infrastructure. Exploitation could impact business continuity by degrading or disabling storage provisioning and management capabilities, affecting dependent applications and data availability.
Apply vendor patch. Interim mitigations pending patch deployment: implement network-level access controls to restrict connections to the Standards-Based Storage Management Service to trusted administrative networks only; monitor service availability and resource consumption for anomalous activity; consider temporary isolation of non-critical storage management functions if DoS risk is elevated in your environment.
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