CVE-2020-1118EPSS p96.6%
CVE-2020-1118CVE-2020-1118
microsoft / windows_10
Description
A denial of service vulnerability exists in the Windows implementation of Transport Layer Security (TLS) when it improperly handles certain key exchanges. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could cause a target system to stop responding.
To exploit this vulnerability, a remote unauthenticated attacker could send a specially crafted request to a target system utilizing TLS 1.2 or lower, triggering the system to automatically reboot.
The update addresses the vulnerability by changing the way TLS key exchange messages are validated.
Scoring
| CVSS | 8.6 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| EPSS | 15.03% probability of exploitation · percentile 96.6% · 2026-10-06T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-08-19 |