A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Windows Domain Name System servers when they fail to properly handle requests, aka 'Windows DNS Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability'.
CVE-2020-1350
“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.
Score elevated to 10.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2021-11-03), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 10.0 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.
Also known asEUVD-2020-12226 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD
- Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low mission impact
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 10.0
- EG Score
- 10.0CRITICALhigh confidence
- EG Risk
- 100EG Risk 100/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity100% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 10.0 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation100% × 40%Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.Automatability100% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Attend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: A fix is available. Apply it sooner than your standard update timelines at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high. - EPSS PROB
- 97%
- EPSS %ILE
- 99th
- KEV
- ⚠ Exploited
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (10.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 10.0 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 10.0 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 97% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Act at medium mission impactAttend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 3 days & forensic triage if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Attend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.
A fix is available. Apply it sooner than your standard update timelines at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 3 days & forensic triage if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
CISA required action“Apply updates per vendor instructions.”
Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/ed-20-03-mitigate-windows-dns-server-remote-code-execution-vulnerability-july-2020-patch-tuesday · https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1350
Published
July 14, 2020
Last Modified
December 18, 2025
Advisory Details (3)
Auto-updated Nov 1, 2026Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA
Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA. Listed in CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-1350Security Update Guide - Microsoft Security Response Center
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-1350Vendor Advisories for CVE-2020-1350(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(3)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 17× in last 7d / 169× in last 30d)
Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 100 of 1,750 refreshes on record for this CVE.
A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 1,650 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.
- 2026-11-01 21:21 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-11-01 21:21 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-11-01 21:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-31 19:09 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-31 19:09 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-31 19:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-30 16:52 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-30 16:52 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-30 16:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-29 14:39 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-29 14:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-28 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 97% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-28 12:27 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-28 12:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-27 10:14 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-27 10:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-26 08:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-25 18:51 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-25 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 97% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-25 05:47 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-25 05:47 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-25 05:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-24 03:35 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-24 03:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-23 01:21 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-10-23 01:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-21 23:08 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-21 23:08 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-21 23:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-20 20:55 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-20 20:55 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-20 20:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-19 18:41 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-19 18:41 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-19 18:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-18 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 97% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-18 16:27 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-18 16:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-18 09:35 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-17 19:16 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-17 19:16 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-17 19:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-16 17:02 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-16 17:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-15 14:48 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-15 14:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-14 12:32 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-14 12:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-13 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 97% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-13 10:17 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-13 10:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-12 19:46 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-12 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 97% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-12 08:05 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-12 08:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-12 04:11 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-12 04:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-12 00:16 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-12 00:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-11 20:21 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 20:21 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 20:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-11 16:28 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 16:28 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 16:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-11 12:35 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 12:35 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 12:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-11 08:43 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 08:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-11 04:51 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 04:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-11 00:58 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 00:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-10 21:05 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-10 21:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-10 17:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-10 13:18 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-10 13:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-10 09:25 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-10 09:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-10 05:33 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-10 05:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-10 01:39 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-10 01:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-09 21:46 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-09 21:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-09 17:53 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-09 17:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-09 14:00 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-09 14:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-09 10:08 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-09 10:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-09 06:14 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-09 06:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-09 02:21 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-09 02:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-08 22:29 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-08 22:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hcmx-443w-mr76 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-08 18:36 UTCEG score recompute
Publicly available exploits
(10 references)Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (7 GitHub PoCs), as are 3 GitHub checker repositories. A GitHub repository named or described as a checker or scanner checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.
- GitHub checkergraph-inc/CVE-2020-1350Published Jul 18, 2020
Scanner and Mitigator for CVE 2020-1350
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCconnormcgarr/CVE-2020-1350Published Jul 17, 2020
CVE-2020-1350 Proof-of-Concept
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCcaptainGeech42/CVE-2020-1350Published Jul 16, 2020
Denial of Service PoC for CVE-2020-1350 (SIGRed)
Open source ↗ - GitHub checkerT13nn3s/CVE-2020-1350Published Jul 15, 2020
This Powershell Script is checking if your server is vulnerable for the CVE-2020-1350 Remote Code Execution flaw in the Windows DNS Service
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCcorelight/SIGRedPublished Jul 15, 2020
Detection of attempts to exploit Microsoft Windows DNS server via CVE-2020-1350 (AKA SIGRed)
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCmaxpl0it/CVE-2020-1350-DoSPublished Jul 15, 2020
A denial-of-service proof-of-concept for CVE-2020-1350
Open source ↗ - Open source ↗GitHub PoCmr-r3b00t/CVE-2020-1350Published Jul 14, 2020
- GitHub PoCZephrFish/CVE-2020-1350_HoneyPoCPublished Jul 14, 2020
HoneyPoC: Proof-of-Concept (PoC) script to exploit SIGRed (CVE-2020-1350). Achieves Domain Admin on Domain Controllers running Windows Server 2000 up to Windows Server 2019.
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCzoomerxsec/Fake_CVE-2020-1350Published Jul 14, 2020
Fake exploit tool, designed to rickroll users attempting to actually exploit.
Open source ↗ - GitHub checkerpsc4re/NSE-scriptsPublished Mar 11, 2020
NSE scripts to detect CVE-2020-1350 SIGRED and CVE-2020-0796 SMBGHOST, CVE-2021-21972, proxyshell, CVE-2021-34473
Open source ↗
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