CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-8438

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2018-09-13 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-09-13
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

A denial of service vulnerability exists when Microsoft Hyper-V Network Switch on a host server fails to properly validate input from a privileged user on a guest operating system, aka "Windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability." This affects Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2016, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 10 Servers. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-8436, CVE-2018-8437.

Affected configurations

• microsoft windows 10 • microsoft windows 10 1607 • microsoft windows 10 1709 • microsoft windows 10 1803 • microsoft windows 8.1 • microsoft windows server 2012 • microsoft windows server 2016 • microsoft windows server 2016 1709 • microsoft windows server 2016 1803

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References