CVE-2020-0890

Windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability

At a glance

Severity
MEDIUM 6.5
EPSS
EPSS 2.84 % · percentile 87 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
microsoft
NVD status
Modified

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>

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:Cmicrosoft
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · secure@microsoft.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 4.9AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:CNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 1803affected 10.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 1809affected 10.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows Server 2019affected 10.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)affected 10.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 1909affected 10.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows Server, version 1909 (Server Core installation)affected 10.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 1903 for 32-bit Systemsaffected 10.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 1903 for x64-based Systemsaffected 10.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 1903 for ARM64-based Systemsaffected 10.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows Server, version 1903 (Server Core installation)affected 10.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 2004affected 10.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows Server version 2004affected 10.0.0 < publication

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD