CVSS 3.1
7.0 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-1151
High (7.0) in microsoft. EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Runtime improperly handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in an elevated context.
An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by running a specially crafted application on the victim system.
The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting the way the Windows Runtime handles objects in memory.
Severity
- EPSS
- 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 83% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- microsoft:windows_10
- microsoft:windows_server_2016
- microsoft:windows_server_2019