CVE-2020-0836

Windows DNS Denial of Service Vulnerability

High · published September 11, 2020

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
5%
Percentile
92.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

<p>A denial of service vulnerability exists in Windows DNS when it fails to properly handle queries. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause the DNS service to become nonresponsive.</p>

<p>To exploit the vulnerability, an authenticated attacker could send malicious DNS queries to a target, resulting in a denial of service.</p>

<p>The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Windows DNS processes queries.</p>

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
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
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.05051 · 92.3th percentile
Published
2020-09-11T17:08Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 SEP 17:08Z
    Windows DNS Denial of Service Vulnerability
    cvelistv5