CVSS 3.1
8.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-1436
High (8.8) in microsoft. EPSS 21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Windows font library improperly handles specially crafted fonts.For all systems except Windows 10, an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute code remotely, aka 'Windows Font Library Remote Code Execution Vulnerability'.
Severity
- EPSS
- 21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 97% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-787
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- microsoft:windows_10
- microsoft:windows_7
- microsoft:windows_8.1
- microsoft:windows_rt_8.1
- microsoft:windows_server_2008
- microsoft:windows_server_2012
- microsoft:windows_server_2016
- microsoft:windows_server_2019
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/25/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/25/5
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-1436
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-877/
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/25/3