CVE-2020-0890
moderate-risk
Published 2020-09-11
<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>
Do I need to act?
!
11.1% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 89% of all CVEs
-
Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
?
Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
6
CVSS 6.5/10
Medium
LOCAL
/ LOW complexity
Affected Products (9)
Affected Vendors
47
/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity
21/34 · High
Exploitability
11/34 · Low
Exposure
15/34 · Moderate