CVE-2021-26416HighCVSS 7.7

Windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability

Published
April 13, 2021
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

How can an attacker exploit this 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. This can cause the host OS to crash by sending specially crafted request.

🎯 Affected products12

  • 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 10 Version 2004 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 20H2 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 1909 (Server Core installation)
  • Windows Server, version 2004 (Server Core installation)
  • Windows Server, version 20H2 (Server Core Installation)

✅ Remediation

KB5001342 (Security Update) KB5001337 (Security Update) KB5001330 (Security Update) KB5001347 (Security Update)

🔗 References (9)