Coverage › CVE-2020-1040
CVE-2020-1040 Unmapped
Microsoft Hyper-V RemoteFX vGPU Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- Microsoft — Hyper-V RemoteFX
- Description (CISA)
- Microsoft Hyper-V RemoteFX vGPU contains an improper input validation vulnerability due to the host server failing to properly validate input from an authenticated user on a guest operating system. Successful exploitation allows for remote code execution on the host operating system.
- Added to KEV
- 2021-11-03
- Due date
- 2022-05-03
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Known ransomware use
- Unknown
- CWE
- CWE-20
- CISA notes
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1040
- Elsewhere
- cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON
ATT&CK techniques
No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.
The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2020-1040. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-20) — here is why — and does not guess.
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