CVE-2020-1243
HIGHMicrosoft Hyper-V - Denial of Service via Malicious Guest Data
Title source: llmDescription
<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>
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-1243
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0090
EPSS Percentile
56.0%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
Status
published
Products (11)
microsoft/windows_10
1607
microsoft/windows_10
1709
microsoft/windows_10
1803
microsoft/windows_10
1809
microsoft/windows_10
1903
microsoft/windows_10
2004
microsoft/windows_server_2016
microsoft/windows_server_2016
1903
microsoft/windows_server_2016
1909
microsoft/windows_server_2016
2004
... and 1 more
Published
Oct 16, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026