CVE-2020-16927

Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) Denial of Service Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Oct 16, 2020
Updated
May 28, 2026
Reserved
Aug 4, 2020

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Description

<p>A denial of service vulnerability exists in Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) 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 RDP service on the target system to stop responding.</p> <p>To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to run a specially crafted application against a server which provides Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) services.</p> <p>The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how RDP handles connection requests.</p>

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:Cmicrosoft

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Windows 10 Version 1803Microsoft
  • 10.0.0 to before publicationAffected
Windows 10 Version 1809Microsoft
  • 10.0.0 to before publicationAffected
Windows Server 2019Microsoft
  • 10.0.0 to before publicationAffected
Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)Microsoft
  • 10.0.0 to before publicationAffected
Windows 10 Version 1909Microsoft
  • 10.0.0 to before publicationAffected
Windows Server, version 1909 (Server Core installation)Microsoft
  • 10.0.0 to before publicationAffected
Windows 10 Version 1709 for 32-bit SystemsMicrosoft
  • 10.0.0 to before publicationAffected
Windows 10 Version 1709Microsoft
  • 10.0.0 to before publicationAffected
Windows 10 Version 1903 for 32-bit SystemsMicrosoft
  • 10.0.0 to before publicationAffected
Windows 10 Version 1903 for x64-based SystemsMicrosoft
  • 10.0.0 to before publicationAffected
Windows 10 Version 1903 for ARM64-based SystemsMicrosoft
  • 10.0.0 to before publicationAffected
Windows Server, version 1903 (Server Core installation)Microsoft
  • 10.0.0 to before publicationAffected
Windows 10 Version 2004Microsoft
  • 10.0.0 to before publicationAffected
Windows Server version 2004Microsoft
  • 10.0.0 to before publicationAffected
Windows 10 Version 1507Microsoft
  • 10.0.0 to before publicationAffected
Windows 10 Version 1607Microsoft
  • 10.0.0 to before publicationAffected
Windows Server 2016Microsoft
  • 10.0.0 to before publicationAffected
Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation)Microsoft
  • 10.0.0 to before publicationAffected
Windows 8.1Microsoft
  • 6.3.0 to before publicationAffected
Windows Server 2012 R2Microsoft
  • 6.3.0 to before publicationAffected
Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Core installation)Microsoft
  • 6.3.0 to before publicationAffected

References

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