CVE-2020-1031

Windows DHCP Server Information Disclosure Vulnerability

High · published September 11, 2020

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
5%
Percentile
92.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

<p>An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Server DHCP service improperly discloses the contents of its memory.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how DHCP servers initializes memory.</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:H/I:N/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.05143 · 92.4th percentile
Published
2020-09-11T17:08Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 SEP 17:08Z
    Windows DHCP Server Information Disclosure Vulnerability
    cvelistv5