Microsoft security update for CVE-2020-16894 — Windows
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products3
- Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems
- Windows Server 2016
- Windows Server 2016 (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 |
|---|---|---|
| KB4580346 | Security Update | — |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2020-16894
- 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
<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>
Published by Microsoft Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2020-16894, 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).