Windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
A denial of service vulnerability exists when Microsoft Hyper-V on a host server fails to properly validate input from a privileged user on a guest operating system. 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. 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. The security update addresses the vulnerability by resolving a number of conditions where Hyper-V would fail to prevent a guest operating system from sending malicious requests.
🎯 Affected products9
- Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems
- Windows 10 Version 1809 for x64-based Systems
- Windows 10 Version 1909 for x64-based Systems
- Windows Server 2016
- Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation)
- Windows Server 2019
- Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)
- Windows Server, version 1903 (Server Core installation)
- Windows Server, version 1909 (Server Core installation)
✅ Remediation
KB4532691 (Security Update) KB4532693 (Security Update) KB4537764 (Security Update)
🔗 References (6)
- advisoryhttps://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2020-0661
- patchhttps://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=KB4532691
- referencehttps://support.microsoft.com/help/4532691
- patchhttps://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=KB4532693
- patchhttps://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=KB4537764
- referencehttps://support.microsoft.com/help/4537764