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CVE-2020-0917

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Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows Hyper-V on a host server fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka 'Windows Hyper-V Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-0918.

References

https://github.com/hheeyywweellccoommee/CVE-2020-0917_Exploit-urcsn

https://github.com/L0ch/CVE-2020-0917_Exploit

https://www.tenable.com/blog/microsoft-april-2020-patch-tuesday-addresses-113-cves-including-adobe-type-manager-library

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-0917

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2020-2385

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-04-15

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01206

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