CVE-2020-16863

Summary

<p>A denial of service vulnerability exists in Windows Remote Desktop Service 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 Remote Desktop 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 Service.</p> <p>The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Remote Desktop Service handles connection requests.</p>

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
MicrosoftWindows 76.1.0 < publicationaffected
MicrosoftWindows 7 Service Pack 16.1.0 < publicationaffected
MicrosoftWindows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 16.1.0 < publicationaffected
MicrosoftWindows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (Server Core installation)6.0.0 < publicationaffected

Weaknesses

  • Denial of Service

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: yes
    • Technical Impact: partial

References