CVE-2020-1466

Windows Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway) Denial of Service Vulnerability

High · published August 17, 2020

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
4%
Percentile
90.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.03946 · 90.4th percentile
Published
2020-08-17T19:13Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 AUG 19:13Z
    Windows Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway) Denial of Service Vulnerability
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