Vulnerability · Published Sep 11, 2020 · Assigned by microsoft
CVE-2020-0904Windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability
Medium 6.5
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in Windows 10 Version 1607 from Microsoft. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.2% (higher than 69% of all known vulnerabilities).
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>