CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-1562
High (7.8) in microsoft. EPSS 4.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that Microsoft Graphics Components handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute arbitrary code on a target system.
To exploit the vulnerability, a user would have to open a specially crafted file.
The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft Graphics Components handle objects in memory.
Severity
- EPSS
- 4.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 90% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- 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