CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-1596
5.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-09-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.9 LOW — AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-327
Description
<p>A information disclosure vulnerability exists when TLS components use weak hash algorithms. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could obtain information to further compromise a users's encrypted transmission channel.</p>
<p>To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would have to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack.</p>
<p>The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how TLS components use hash algorithms.</p>
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 10 2004
• microsoft windows 7
• microsoft windows 8.1
• microsoft windows rt 8.1
• microsoft windows server 2008
• microsoft windows server 2012
• microsoft windows server 2012 r2
• microsoft windows server 2016
• microsoft windows server 2016 1903
• microsoft windows server 2016 1909
• microsoft windows server 2016 2004
• microsoft windows server 2019
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-327 Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm weakness
References
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-1596 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-1596 Patch, Vendor Advisory