Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10

CVE-2020-0890

<p>A denial of service vulnerability exists when Microsoft Hyper-V on a host server fails to properly validate specific malicious data from a user on a guest operating system.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by resolving the conditions where Hyper-V would fail to handle these requests.</p>

EPSS: 0.028 (85.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-0890?
CVE-2020-0890 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2020-09-11.
How severe is CVE-2020-0890?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2020-0890 known to be exploited?
12 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.