CVE-2020-16894HighCVSS 7.7

Windows NAT Denial of Service Vulnerability

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

📋 Description

A denial of service vulnerability exists when Windows Network Address Translation (NAT) 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 Windows NAT accesses the host.

🎯 Affected products3

  • Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation)

✅ Remediation

KB4580346 (Security Update)

🔗 References (3)