CVE record · CVE-2020-17051

Windows Network File System Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVSS 9.8 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.11 · 95th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.
  • CVSS score 9.8 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.11 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: microsoft) at 11 Nov 2020, 06:48 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Microsoft Windows Server version 20H2
  • affected 10.0.0 to before publication custom
Microsoft Windows Server 2019
  • affected 10.0.0 to before publication custom
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)
  • affected 10.0.0 to before publication custom
Microsoft Windows Server, version 1909 (Server Core installation)
  • affected 10.0.0 to before publication custom
Microsoft Windows Server, version 1903 (Server Core installation)
  • affected 10.0.0 to before publication custom
Microsoft Windows Server version 2004
  • affected 10.0.0 to before publication custom
Microsoft Windows Server 2016
  • affected 10.0.0 to before publication custom
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation)
  • affected 10.0.0 to before publication custom
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2
  • affected 6.0.0 to before publication custom
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (Server Core installation)
  • affected 6.0.0 to before publication custom
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2
  • affected 6.0.0 to before publication custom
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1
  • affected 6.1.0 to before publication custom
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (Server Core installation)
  • affected 6.0.0 to before publication custom
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
  • affected 6.2.0 to before publication custom
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (Server Core installation)
  • affected 6.2.0 to before publication custom
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
  • affected 6.3.0 to before publication custom
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Core installation)
  • affected 6.3.0 to before publication custom
Identifiers
CVE-2020-17051
CNA
microsoft
Published
11 Nov 2020
Updated
10 Sept 2024

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
9.8 Critical 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C CNA (microsoft)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.11, the 95th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 11 Nov 2020. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.