CVE-2020-0890 Information

Description

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.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 the conditions where Hyper-V would fail to handle these requests. aka ‘Windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability’. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-0904.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-0890

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.5