CVE-2020-1040

State: Published
Severity: 9.0 Critical
Published: Jul 14, 2020
Updated: Oct 21, 2025
Reserved: Nov 4, 2019

Description

A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Hyper-V RemoteFX vGPU on a host server fails to properly validate input from an authenticated user on a guest operating system, aka 'Hyper-V RemoteFX vGPU Remote Code Execution Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-1032, CVE-2020-1036, CVE-2020-1041, CVE-2020-1042, CVE-2020-1043.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.0 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Windows ServerMicrosoft	2016Affected 2016 (Core installation)Affected 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1Affected 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1 (Core installation)Affected 2012Affected 2012 (Core installation)Affected 2012 R2Affected 2012 R2 (Core installation)Affected

References

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