Security Advisory

CVE-2020-16894

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2020-10-16 22:17:38
Last updated 2024-10-01 15:56:51
Assigner microsoft
State PUBLISHED

Description

<p>A denial of service vulnerability exists when Windows Network Address Translation (NAT) on a host server fails to properly validate input from a privileged user on a guest operating system. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could cause the host server to crash.</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 that causes a host machine to crash.</p> <p>The update addresses the vulnerability by modifying how Windows NAT accesses the host.</p>