Summary
Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Critical. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
A remote code execution vulnerability exists when a VM guest fails to properly handle communication on a VMBus channel. To exploit the vulnerability, an authenticated attacker could send a specially crafted communication on the VMBus channel from the guest VM to the Host. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute arbitrary code on the host operating system.
If the guest VM is running nested VMs, then this machine becomes a host and is vulnerable to CVE-2021-26443 and the update will need to be applied to mitigate this vulnerability. If the Guest VM is not running nested VMs then the Guest VM is not vulnerable to CVE-2021-26443.
** Is my system at risk to CVE-2021-26443 if Hyper-V is not enabled?**
No.
Security updates
10.0.17763.2300 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5007206
10.0.18363.1916 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5007189
10.0.19043.1348 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5007186
10.0.20348.350 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5007205
10.0.22000.318 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5007215
Vulnerabilities 1
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Critical 9.0
Microsoft Virtual Machine Bus (VMBus) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Microsoft Virtual Machine Bus (VMBus) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2021-26443 Microsoft Virtual Machine Bus (VMBus) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2021-26443
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Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
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Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
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Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss