CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-1507

7.9 HIGH Published 2020-09-11 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-09-11
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.9 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that Microsoft COM for Windows handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could gain elevated privileges on a targeted system.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, a user would have to open a specially crafted file.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft COM for Windows handles objects in memory.</p>

Affected configurations

• microsoft windows 10 1809 • microsoft windows 10 1903 • microsoft windows 10 1909 • microsoft windows 10 2004 • microsoft windows server 2016 1903 • microsoft windows server 2016 1909 • microsoft windows server 2016 2004 • microsoft windows server 2019

References