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CVE-2020-1080

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-1080 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Windows Hyper-V affecting Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, and Windows Server 2019. It allows an attacker to gain elevated privileges on the host server due to improper memory handling. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), indicating a significant impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with a low attack complexity and requiring local access. While not actively exploited in the wild and lacking public exploit code, it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage. This vulnerability would likely be chained with other exploits to achieve arbitrary code execution.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1803CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1803:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
1809CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1809:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
1903CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1903:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
1909CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1909:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
2004CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:2004:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.0
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.89%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
55.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0089 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 17,070 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (11)

microsoftpatch availablevia nvd_reference
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1803 for x64-based Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1809 for x64-based Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server 2019
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1909 for x64-based Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server, version 1909 (Server Core installation)
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1903 for x64-based Systems
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server, version 1903 (Server Core installation)
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 2004 for x64-based Systems
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server, version 2004 (Server Core installation)
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2020-Oct/CVE-2020-1080Important

Windows Hyper-V Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Oct 13, 2020

References

portal.msrc.microsoft.com / en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-1080
PatchVendor Advisory