CVE-2020-1466: Microsoft Windows Server 2012

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A denial of service vulnerability exists in Windows Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway) 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 RD Gateway service on the target system to stop responding. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to run a specially crafted application against a server which provides RD Gateway services. The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how RD Gateway handles connection requests.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows Server 2012: affected versions not specified; version r2 only
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016: affected versions not specified
• Microsoft Windows Server 2019: affected versions not specified

Published 2020-08-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.