CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-0668
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-02-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-732
Description
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Kernel handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-0669, CVE-2020-0670, CVE-2020-0671, CVE-2020-0672.
Affected configurations
• microsoft windows 10
• microsoft windows 10 1607
• microsoft windows 10 1709
• microsoft windows 10 1803
• microsoft windows 10 1809
• microsoft windows 10 1903
• microsoft windows 10 1909
• microsoft windows 7
• microsoft windows 8.1
• microsoft windows rt 8.1
• microsoft windows server 2008
• microsoft windows server 2008 r2
• microsoft windows server 2012
• microsoft windows server 2012 r2
• microsoft windows server 2016
• microsoft windows server 2016 1803
• microsoft windows server 2016 1903
• microsoft windows server 2016 1909
• microsoft windows server 2019
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156576/Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Privilege-Escalation.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157615/Service-Tracing-Privilege-Escalation.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-0668 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-257/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156576/Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Privilege-Escalation.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157615/Service-Tracing-Privilege-Escalation.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-0668 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-257/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry