Vulnerability · Published Sep 11, 2020 · Assigned by microsoft

CVE-2020-0890Windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Windows 10 Version 1803 from Microsoft. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 2.8% (higher than 87% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)2.8%top 13.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack tooling1Public PoC

Official description

<p>A denial of service vulnerability exists when Microsoft Hyper-V on a host server fails to properly validate specific malicious data from a user on a guest operating system.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker who already has a privileged account on a guest operating system, running as a virtual machine, could run a specially crafted application.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by resolving the conditions where Hyper-V would fail to handle these requests.</p>

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1803 10.0.0 – before publication
Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1809 10.0.0 – before publication
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 10.0.0 – before publication
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation) 10.0.0 – before publication
Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1909 10.0.0 – before publication
Microsoft Windows Server, version 1909 (Server Core installation) 10.0.0 – before publication
Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1903 for 32-bit Systems 10.0.0 – before publication
Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1903 for x64-based Systems 10.0.0 – before publication
Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1903 for ARM64-based Systems 10.0.0 – before publication
Microsoft Windows Server, version 1903 (Server Core installation) 10.0.0 – before publication
Microsoft Windows 10 Version 2004 10.0.0 – before publication
Microsoft Windows Server version 2004 10.0.0 – before publication

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