CVE-2020-1047HighCVSS 7.8

Windows Hyper-V Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published
October 13, 2020
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2020-1047 →

📋 Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows Hyper-V on a host server fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could gain elevated privileges on a target operating system. This vulnerability by itself does not allow arbitrary code to be run. However, this vulnerability could be used in conjunction with one or more vulnerabilities (e.g. a remote code execution vulnerability and another elevation of privilege) that could take advantage of the elevated privileges when running. The update addresses the vulnerabilities by correcting how Windows Hyper-V handles objects in memory.

🎯 Affected products11

  • Windows 10 Version 1709 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 1803 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 1809 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 1903 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 1909 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 2004 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows Server 2019
  • Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)
  • Windows Server, version 1903 (Server Core installation)
  • Windows Server, version 1909 (Server Core installation)
  • Windows Server, version 2004 (Server Core installation)

✅ Remediation

KB4580330 (Security Update) KB4577668 (Security Update) KB4577671 (Security Update) KB4580328 (Security Update) KB4579311 (Security Update)

🔗 References (11)