Technical Information

Brief overview of the risk:

A remote code execution vulnerability in hyper-v. On exploitation this vulnerability can allow remote attackers to read the host’s kernel memory from a malicious guest VM. To trigger this vulnerability the guest VM must first trigger a memory allocation error on the guest VM. Using this vulnerability a remote attacker can escape from the guest VM and move into the host machine.

Further information on this vulnerability is available at : CVE-2021-38672