CVE-2020-0751: Microsoft Windows 10

Medium severity, CVSS 6.0. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 10: version 1903 only; version 1909 only
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016: version 1903 only; version 1909 only

Published 2020-02-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.