Vulnerability Discussion

Unnecessary services increase the attack surface of a system. Some of these services may not support required levels of authentication or encryption or may provide unauthorized access to the system.

Check

Open "PowerShell".

Enter "Get-WindowsFeature | Where Name -eq TFTP-Client".

If "Installed State" is "Installed", this is a finding.

An Installed State of "Available" or "Removed" is not a finding.

Fix

Uninstall the "TFTP Client" feature.

Start "Server Manager".

Select the server with the feature.

Scroll down to "ROLES AND FEATURES" in the right pane.

Select "Remove Roles and Features" from the drop-down "TASKS" list.

Select the appropriate server on the "Server Selection" page and click "Next".

Deselect "TFTP Client" on the "Features" page.

Click "Next" and "Remove" as prompted.