Microsoft security update for CVE-2018-8218 — Windows
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products2
- Windows 10 Version 1709 for x64-based Systems
- Windows Server, version 1709 (Server Core Installation)
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 1 KB article
1 row: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| KB4284819 | Security Update | — |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2018-8218
- EchelonGraph score
- 7.7 HIGH
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
A denial of service vulnerability exists when Microsoft Hyper-V Network Switch on a host server fails to properly validate input from a privileged user on a guest operating system, aka "Windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability." This affects Windows 10, Windows 10 Servers.
Published by Microsoft Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2018-8218, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).