CVE-2020-16927

EUVD-2020-8885
<p>A denial of service vulnerability exists in Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) 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 RDP 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 Protocol (RDP) services.</p>
<p>The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how RDP handles connection requests.</p>
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTPrimary
7.5 HIGH
NETWORK
LOW
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
microsoftCNA
7.5 HIGH
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
Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 95%
Affected Products (NVD)
VendorProductVersion
microsoftwindows_10
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microsoftwindows_8.1
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microsoftwindows_rt_8.1
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microsoftwindows_server_2016
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microsoftwindows_server_2019
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= Vulnerable software versions
Windows Releases
Platform
Version
Windows 10
(x64, x86)
1607 (x64, x86)
1709 (arm64, x64, x86)
1803 (arm64, x64, x86)
1809 (arm64, x64, x86)
1903 (arm64, x64, x86)
1909 (arm64, x64, x86)
2004 (arm64, x64, x86)
Windows 8.1
(x64, x86)
(x64, x86)
Windows RT 8.1
All
Windows Server
1903 Server Core
1909 Server Core
2004 Server Core
Windows Server 2012 R2
Server Core
Server Core
Standard
Standard
Windows Server 2016
Server Core
Standard
Windows Server 2019
Server Core
Standard