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 Server 2012 R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2016, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 10 Servers. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-8436, CVE-2018-8437.

Related CVEs

CVE-2018-8438

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-6fcm-m3gp-p67j

Published

May 14, 2022 2:02 AM

Last Modified

May 14, 2022 2:02 AM

CVSS Score

5.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: July 28, 2025 6:37 AM

Data from GitHub Advisory Database. This information is provided for research and educational purposes.