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CVE-2018-8437 — Microsoft Windows 10 security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 6.2

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 10, Windows 10 Servers. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-8436, CVE-2018-8438.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
6.2 (3.0)
Published
2018-09-13
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
windows/system
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Affected products

  • microsoft / windows_10 / 1803
  • microsoft / windows_server_2016 / 1803

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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