SMBGhost CVE 2020-0796

CVE 2020-0796 was released in March 2020, with a CVSS:3.0 score of 10.0, which makes it a vulnerability to look out for. In this report, the readers will understand where this vulnerability resides in Windows 10, how it worked, and why it was so critically dangerous.

Key Pointers:

• Affected versions of Windows that need to be taken care of
• Understanding the criticality of this vulnerability
• Understanding how attackers target a vulnerable system and attack them
• Defining the prerequisites for exploit demonstration
• Installing publically available tools and using them
• Finally taking a look at some mitigations to prevent such attacks