CVE-2020-1243

HIGH

Microsoft Hyper-V - Denial of Service via Malicious Guest Data

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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>

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

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