{"id":"CVE-2020-0751","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-0751","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T21:18:27.693Z","title":"A denial of service vulnerability exists when Microsoft Hyper-V on a host server fails to properly validate specific malicious data from a user on a guest operating system.To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker who already has a privileged account on…","description":"A denial of service vulnerability exists when Microsoft Hyper-V on a host server fails to properly validate specific malicious data from a user on a guest operating system.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.The security update addresses the vulnerability by resolving the conditions where Hyper-V would fail to handle these requests., aka 'Windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-0661.","published":"2020-02-11T22:15:21.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:46:31.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"secure@microsoft.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-20"],"affected":["microsoft/windows 10","microsoft/windows server 2016"],"epss":{"score":0.01393,"percentile":0.72176,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.39%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-0751","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"secure@microsoft.com"},{"url":"https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-0751","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-0751","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}