Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
CVE-2019-0713 can let a privileged user inside a Hyper-V guest virtual machine crash the host server. This is an availability risk, not a reported data theft or code execution issue. The main business concern is outage of VM workloads sharing the affected host.
Executive priority
Treat this as a moderate-priority infrastructure availability issue. Patch Hyper-V hosts in the normal security maintenance cycle, faster for shared virtualization environments where guest administrators are not fully trusted.
Technical view
Microsoft describes improper validation in Hyper-V where a privileged guest OS user can run a specially crafted application that sends malicious requests to the host, causing a host crash. The update resolves conditions where Hyper-V failed to block those guest-originated requests.
Likely exposure
Exposure is limited to affected Microsoft Windows systems running Hyper-V, especially hosts with guest VMs administered by different or less-trusted users. Listed affected platforms include Windows 7/8.1/10 and Windows Server 2008 through 2016 variants.
Exploitation context
The source bundle does not show CISA KEV listing or active exploitation. The CVSS vector indicates low attack complexity and high availability impact, but exploitation requires an already privileged account on a guest VM.
Researcher notes
The evidence supports guest-to-host denial of service, not confidentiality or integrity compromise. Sources do not provide CWE, exploit details, active exploitation evidence, or product-specific KB numbers in the supplied bundle.
Mitigation direction
- Apply Microsoft security updates for CVE-2019-0713 on affected Hyper-V hosts.
- Use MSRC guidance to identify the applicable update for each Windows version.
- Prioritize hosts running untrusted, shared, or multi-tenant guest workloads.
- Limit privileged guest OS access to trusted administrators where operationally possible.
Validation and detection
- Inventory Windows systems running Hyper-V and map them to the affected product list.
- Confirm the applicable Microsoft security update is installed on each Hyper-V host.
- Check whether guest administrators are separate from host administrators in your environment.
- Review host crash or availability incidents around Hyper-V workloads for correlation.
Public sources used
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Open ATT&CK lookup- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 6.8 (3.1)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
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CVSS vector scores
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CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C2.34Primary CVE scoreVulnerability scoring details
Base CVSS 3.1 score
6.8MediumVector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- Windows Hyper-V Denial of Service VulnerabilityCVE reference · vendor-advisory
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-0713CVE reference · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
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CWE details
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