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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.7 High

CVE-2020-16894

Windows NAT Denial of Service Vulnerability

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>

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1607

  • 10.0.0 to < publicationaffected

Microsoft Windows Server 2016

  • 10.0.0 to < publicationaffected

Microsoft Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation)

  • 10.0.0 to < publicationaffected

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