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CVE-2020-16863

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CVE-2020-16863

Published: Oct 16, 2020

Modified: Oct 1, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

7.5

HIGH

Description

<p>A denial of service vulnerability exists in Windows Remote Desktop Service when an attacker connects to the target system using RDP and sends specially crafted requests. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause the Remote Desktop Service on the target system to stop responding.</p> <p>To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to run a specially crafted application against a server which provides Remote Desktop Service.</p> <p>The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Remote Desktop Service handles connection requests.</p>

VendorProductVersions

Microsoft

Windows 7

affected
6.1.0 - < publication

Microsoft

Windows 7 Service Pack 1

affected
6.1.0 - < publication

Microsoft

Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1

affected
6.1.0 - < publication

Microsoft

Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (Server Core installation)

affected
6.0.0 - < publication

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

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