CVE-2020-1031: Microsoft Windows 10

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 5.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Server DHCP service improperly discloses the contents of its memory. To exploit the vulnerability, an unauthenticated attacker could send a specially crafted packet to an affected DHCP server. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could obtain information to further compromise the user’s system. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how DHCP servers initializes memory.

Affected products

Microsoft Windows 10: affected versions not specified; version 1607 only; version 1709 only; version 1803 only; version 1809 only; version 1903 only; …
Microsoft Windows 7: affected versions not specified
Microsoft Windows 8.1: affected versions not specified
Microsoft Windows Rt 8.1: affected versions not specified
Microsoft Windows Server 2008: affected versions not specified; version r2 only
Microsoft Windows Server 2012: affected versions not specified; version r2 only
Microsoft Windows Server 2016: affected versions not specified; version 1903 only; version 1909 only; version 2004 only
Microsoft Windows Server 2019: affected versions not specified

Published 2020-09-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.