Vulnerability Report

CVE-2010-3960

Title: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2010-3960.

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date Dec 16, 2010

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.9 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.77%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2010-3960: Hyper-V in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Gold, SP2, and R2 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS hang) by sending a crafted encapsulated packet over the VMBus, aka "Hyper-V VMBus Vulnerability."

Impacted Vendors

microsoft 1

Reference Links

http://osvdb.org/69818 http://secunia.com/advisories/42617 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45293 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024884 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-348A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3224 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-102 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12359 http://osvdb.org/69818 http://secunia.com/advisories/42617 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45293 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024884 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-348A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3224 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-102 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12359

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.9

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2010-3960 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 16, 2010 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.