CVE-2020-1350

CRITICALNVD 10.010.0
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score elevated to 10.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2021-11-03), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 10.0 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Exploited in the wild

Also known asEUVD-2020-12226 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

10.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low mission impact
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 97%CVSS: 10.0Exploit: Public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Windows Domain Name System servers when they fail to properly handle requests, aka 'Windows DNS Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability'.

CVSS v3
10.0
EG Score
10.0CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
100
EG Risk 100/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity100% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 10.0 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation100% × 40%
Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Attend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it sooner than your standard update timelines at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high.
EPSS PROB
97%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
⚠ Exploited

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (10.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 10.0 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
10.0 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
97% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-12). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Act at medium mission impactAttend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 3 days & forensic triage if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Attend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.

A fix is available. Apply it sooner than your standard update timelines at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high.

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 3 days & forensic triage if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

CISA required action“Apply updates per vendor instructions.”

Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/ed-20-03-mitigate-windows-dns-server-remote-code-execution-vulnerability-july-2020-patch-tuesday · https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1350

Published

July 14, 2020

Last Modified

December 18, 2025

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Nov 8, 2026
⚠️ Actively exploited (CISA KEV, CISA Vulnrichment). Patch available. Sources: cisa, microsoft.
CISA🔴 Active Exploitation

Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA

Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA. Listed in CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-1350
Microsoft

Security Update Guide - Microsoft Security Response Center

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-1350

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2020-1350(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(3)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 10× in last 7d / 47× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed its CVE.org record (CNA or CISA ADP). An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). "EchelonGraph re-scored" is our own recompute of this CVE's score, not an update from a source, and is not counted in the refreshes above. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 1,778 rows on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 1,678 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-12 19:32 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  2. 2026-11-12 19:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  3. 2026-11-11 17:19 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  4. 2026-11-11 17:19 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-11-11 17:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  6. 2026-11-11 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 97% · 99th percentile
  7. 2026-11-10 15:06 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  8. 2026-11-10 15:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  9. 2026-11-09 12:53 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  10. 2026-11-09 12:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  11. 2026-11-08 10:40 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  12. 2026-11-08 10:40 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-11-08 10:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  14. 2026-11-07 08:27 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  15. 2026-11-07 08:27 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-11-07 08:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  17. 2026-11-06 06:14 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  18. 2026-11-06 06:14 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-11-06 06:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  20. 2026-11-05 04:01 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  21. 2026-11-05 04:01 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-11-05 04:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  23. 2026-11-04 01:48 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  24. 2026-11-04 01:48 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-11-04 01:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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  1. 2026-11-02 23:35 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  2. 2026-11-02 23:35 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-11-02 23:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  4. 2026-11-01 21:21 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  5. 2026-11-01 21:21 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-11-01 21:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  7. 2026-10-31 19:09 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  8. 2026-10-31 19:09 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-10-31 19:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  10. 2026-10-30 16:52 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  11. 2026-10-30 16:52 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-30 16:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  13. 2026-10-29 14:39 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  14. 2026-10-29 14:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  15. 2026-10-28 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 97% · 99th percentile
  16. 2026-10-28 12:27 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  17. 2026-10-28 12:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  18. 2026-10-27 10:14 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  19. 2026-10-27 10:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  20. 2026-10-26 08:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  21. 2026-10-25 18:51 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  22. 2026-10-25 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 97% · 99th percentile
  23. 2026-10-25 05:47 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  24. 2026-10-25 05:47 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-10-25 05:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  26. 2026-10-24 03:35 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  27. 2026-10-24 03:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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  29. 2026-10-23 01:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  30. 2026-10-21 23:08 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  31. 2026-10-21 23:08 UTCVendor advisory
  32. 2026-10-21 23:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  33. 2026-10-20 20:55 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  34. 2026-10-20 20:55 UTCVendor advisory
  35. 2026-10-20 20:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  36. 2026-10-19 18:41 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  37. 2026-10-19 18:41 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-10-19 18:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  39. 2026-10-18 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 97% · 99th percentile
  40. 2026-10-18 16:27 UTCVendor advisory
  41. 2026-10-18 16:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  42. 2026-10-18 09:35 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  43. 2026-10-17 19:16 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  44. 2026-10-17 19:16 UTCVendor advisory
  45. 2026-10-17 19:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  46. 2026-10-16 17:02 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  47. 2026-10-16 17:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  48. 2026-10-15 14:48 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  49. 2026-10-15 14:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  50. 2026-10-14 12:32 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  51. 2026-10-14 12:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  52. 2026-10-13 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 97% · 99th percentile
  53. 2026-10-13 10:17 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-10-13 10:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  55. 2026-10-12 19:46 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  56. 2026-10-12 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 97% · 99th percentile
  57. 2026-10-12 08:05 UTCVendor advisory
  58. 2026-10-12 08:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  59. 2026-10-12 04:11 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-10-12 04:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  61. 2026-10-12 00:16 UTCVendor advisory
  62. 2026-10-12 00:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  63. 2026-10-11 20:21 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  64. 2026-10-11 20:21 UTCVendor advisory
  65. 2026-10-11 20:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  66. 2026-10-11 16:28 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  67. 2026-10-11 16:28 UTCVendor advisory
  68. 2026-10-11 16:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  69. 2026-10-11 12:35 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  70. 2026-10-11 12:35 UTCVendor advisory
  71. 2026-10-11 12:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  72. 2026-10-11 08:43 UTCVendor advisory
  73. 2026-10-11 08:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  74. 2026-10-11 04:51 UTCVendor advisory
  75. 2026-10-11 04:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0

Publicly available exploits

(10 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (7 GitHub PoCs), as are 3 GitHub checker repositories. A GitHub repository named or described as a checker or scanner checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • GitHub checkergraph-inc/CVE-2020-1350
    Published Jul 18, 2020

    Scanner and Mitigator for CVE 2020-1350

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCconnormcgarr/CVE-2020-1350
    Published Jul 17, 2020

    CVE-2020-1350 Proof-of-Concept

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCcaptainGeech42/CVE-2020-1350
    Published Jul 16, 2020

    Denial of Service PoC for CVE-2020-1350 (SIGRed)

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub checkerT13nn3s/CVE-2020-1350
    Published Jul 15, 2020

    This Powershell Script is checking if your server is vulnerable for the CVE-2020-1350 Remote Code Execution flaw in the Windows DNS Service

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCcorelight/SIGRed
    Published Jul 15, 2020

    Detection of attempts to exploit Microsoft Windows DNS server via CVE-2020-1350 (AKA SIGRed)

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCmaxpl0it/CVE-2020-1350-DoS
    Published Jul 15, 2020

    A denial-of-service proof-of-concept for CVE-2020-1350

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCmr-r3b00t/CVE-2020-1350
    Published Jul 14, 2020
    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCZephrFish/CVE-2020-1350_HoneyPoC
    Published Jul 14, 2020

    HoneyPoC: Proof-of-Concept (PoC) script to exploit SIGRed (CVE-2020-1350). Achieves Domain Admin on Domain Controllers running Windows Server 2000 up to Windows Server 2019.

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCzoomerxsec/Fake_CVE-2020-1350
    Published Jul 14, 2020

    Fake exploit tool, designed to rickroll users attempting to actually exploit.

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub checkerpsc4re/NSE-scripts
    Published Mar 11, 2020

    NSE scripts to detect CVE-2020-1350 SIGRED and CVE-2020-0796 SMBGHOST, CVE-2021-21972, proxyshell, CVE-2021-34473

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2020-1350?
CVE-2020-1350 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on July 14, 2020. A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Windows Domain Name System servers when they fail to properly handle requests, aka 'Windows DNS Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability'.
When was the CVE record for CVE-2020-1350 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2020-1350 was published on July 14, 2020. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of December 18, 2025; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2020-1350 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2020-1350 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on November 3, 2021, affecting Microsoft Windows. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. A fix is available. Apply it.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2020-1350?
CVE-2020-1350 has a CVSS v3 base score of 10.0 (NVD).
Which products are affected by CVE-2020-1350?
CVE-2020-1350 affects Microsoft Windows.
How do I remediate CVE-2020-1350?
A fix for CVE-2020-1350 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2020-1350 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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