CVE detail

CVE-2020-1228 — CVE-2020-1228

Published 2020-09-11 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor microsoft · Product windows_server_2008 · Source nvd

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

7.5

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0450

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

91.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

A denial of service vulnerability exists in Windows DNS when it fails to properly handle queries. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause the DNS service to become nonresponsive. To exploit the vulnerability, an authenticated attacker could send malicious DNS queries to a target, resulting in a denial of service. The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Windows DNS processes queries.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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