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CVE Number Vulnerability Product Severity Date
CVE-2020-0910 Windows Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Windows 10 Critical 15-04-2020

Technical Information

Brief overview of the risk:

A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Windows Hyper-V on a host server fails to properly validate input from an authenticated user on a guest operating system. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker could run a specially crafted application on a guest operating system that could cause the Hyper-V host operating system to execute arbitrary code.
An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute arbitrary code on the host operating system.
The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Hyper-V validates guest operating system user input.

Further information on this vulnerability is available at : CVE-2020-0910

Affected Software

Windows 10 Version 1809 for x64-based Systems
Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)
Windows 10 Version 1903 for x64-based Systems
Windows Server version 1903 (Server Core installation)
Windows 10 Version 1909 for x64-based Systems
Windows Server version 1909 (Server Core installation)