Security Advisory

CVE-2020-0890

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2020-09-11 17:08:28
Last updated 2024-08-04 06:18:03
Assigner microsoft
State PUBLISHED

Description

<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>