CVE-2020-1228

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

<p>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.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, an authenticated attacker could send malicious DNS queries to a target, resulting in a denial of service.</p> <p>The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Windows DNS processes queries.</p>

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
MicrosoftWindows Server version 2004>= 10.0.0, < publication
MicrosoftWindows Server 2019>= 10.0.0, < publication
MicrosoftWindows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)>= 10.0.0, < publication
MicrosoftWindows Server, version 1909 (Server Core installation)>= 10.0.0, < publication
MicrosoftWindows Server, version 1903 (Server Core installation)>= 10.0.0, < publication
MicrosoftWindows Server 2016>= 10.0.0, < publication
MicrosoftWindows Server 2016 (Server Core installation)>= 10.0.0, < publication
MicrosoftWindows Server 2008 Service Pack 2>= 6.0.0, < publication
MicrosoftWindows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (Server Core installation)>= 6.0.0, < publication
MicrosoftWindows Server 2008 Service Pack 2>= 6.0.0, < publication
MicrosoftWindows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1>= 6.1.0, < publication
MicrosoftWindows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (Server Core installation)>= 6.0.0, < publication
MicrosoftWindows Server 2012>= 6.2.0, < publication
MicrosoftWindows Server 2012 (Server Core installation)>= 6.2.0, < publication
MicrosoftWindows Server 2012 R2>= 6.3.0, < publication
MicrosoftWindows Server 2012 R2 (Server Core installation)>= 6.3.0, < publication

References

Timeline

Published
Sep 11, 2020
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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