Vulnerability Details CVE-2020-16894
<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>
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.024
EPSS Ranking 84.3%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.7
CVSS v2 Score 6.8
References
Products affected by CVE-2020-16894
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1607
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2016:-