CVE-2020-1038

Windows Routing Utilities Denial of Service

Medium · published September 11, 2020

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
68.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

<p>A denial of service vulnerability exists when Windows Routing Utilities improperly handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could cause a target system to stop responding.</p>

<p>To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have to log on to an affected system and run a specially crafted application. The vulnerability would not allow an attacker to execute code or to elevate user rights directly, but it could be used to cause a target system to stop responding.</p>

<p>The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Windows handles objects in memory.</p>

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01221 · 68.5th percentile
Published
2020-09-11T17:08Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 SEP 17:08Z
    Windows Routing Utilities Denial of Service
    cvelistv5