title: Windows NAT Denial of Service Vulnerability
description: <p>A denial of service vulnerability exists when Windows Network Address Translation (NAT) on a host server fails to properly validate input from a privileged user on a guest operating system. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could cause the host server to crash.</p>
<p>To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker who already has a privileged account on a guest operating system, running as a virtual machine, could run a specially crafted application that causes a host machine to crash.</p>
<p>The update addresses the vulnerability by modifying how Windows NAT accesses the host.</p>
problem types: Remote Code Execution
affected:
{
vendor: Microsoft
product: Windows 10 Version 1607
cpes: cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1607:*:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
platforms: x64-based Systems
versions:
version: 10.0.0, lessThan: publication, versionType: custom, status: affected
}
{
vendor: Microsoft
product: Windows Server 2016
cpes: cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2016:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
platforms: x64-based Systems
versions:
version: 10.0.0, lessThan: publication, versionType: custom, status: affected
}
{
vendor: Microsoft
product: Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation)
cpes: cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2016:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
platforms: x64-based Systems
versions:
version: 10.0.0, lessThan: publication, versionType: custom, status: affected
}
metrics:
format: CVSS
scenarios: GENERAL
cvssV3_1: [
version: 3.1
baseSeverity: HIGH
baseScore: 7.7
vectorString: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
]