CVE-2010-3960 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Hyper-V in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Gold, SP2, and R2 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS hang) by sending a crafted encapsulated packet over the VMBus, aka "Hyper-V VMBus Vulnerability."

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01477.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008:::x64:::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008::sp2:x64:::::
	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008:r2::x64:::::

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Project Subscriptions

Vendors	Products
Microsoft Subscribe	Windows Server 2008 Subscribe

Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2010-3937	Hyper-V in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Gold, SP2, and R2 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS hang) by sending a crafted encapsulated packet over the VMBus, aka "Hyper-V VMBus Vulnerability."

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://osvdb.org/69818
http://secunia.com/advisories/42617
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45293
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024884
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-348A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3224
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-102
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12359

History

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Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: microsoft

Published: 2010-12-16T19:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T03:26:12.298Z

Reserved: 2010-10-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2010-3960

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2010-12-16T19:33:03.257

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2010-3960

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-20

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