CVE-2018-8218HighCVSS 5.7

Windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability

Published
June 12, 2018
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

A denial of service vulnerability exists when Microsoft Hyper-V Network Switch on a host server fails to properly validate input from a privileged user on a guest operating system. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could cause the host server to crash. 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 that causes a host machine to crash. The update addresses the vulnerability by modifying how virtual machines access the Hyper-V Network Switch.

🎯 Affected products2

  • Windows 10 Version 1709 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows Server, version 1709 (Server Core Installation)

✅ Remediation

KB4284819 (Security Update)

🔗 References (2)