CVE-2017-0178 Denial of service in Windows Hyper-V

What is CVE-2017-0178?

CVE-2017-0178 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10, published on 12 Apr 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A denial of service vulnerability exists when Microsoft Hyper-V running on Windows 10, Windows 10 1511, Windows 10 1607, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Windows Server 2016 host server fails to properly validate input from a privileged user on a guest operating system, aka "Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability." This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-0179, CVE-2017-0182, CVE-2017-0183, CVE-2017-0184, CVE-2017-0185, and CVE-2017-0186.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-0178?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Microsoft Windows 10, Microsoft Windows 8.1, Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Microsoft Windows Server 2016.

How do I fix CVE-2017-0178?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-0178 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2017-0178 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-0178 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-pg3w-h29g-j5vv.