CVSS 3.1
5.8 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:LCVE-2020-1152
Medium (5.8) in microsoft. EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows improperly handles calls to Win32k.sys. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could gain elevated privileges on a targeted system.</p>
<p>To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would have to log on to an affected system and run a specially crafted script or application.</p>
<p>The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Windows handles calls to Win32k.</p>
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 48% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- microsoft:windows_10
- microsoft:windows_8.1
- microsoft:windows_rt_8.1
- microsoft:windows_server_2012
- microsoft:windows_server_2016
- microsoft:windows_server_2019