Security Advisory

CVE-2020-1031

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2020-09-11 17:08:52
Last updated 2024-08-04 06:25:00
Assigner microsoft
State PUBLISHED

Description

<p>An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Server DHCP service improperly discloses the contents of its memory.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, an unauthenticated attacker could send a specially crafted packet to an affected DHCP server. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could obtain information to further compromise the user’s system.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how DHCP servers initializes memory.</p>