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-2020-0661.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
6.0 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 72% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)