CVSS 3.1
5.4 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:NCVE-2020-1596
Medium (5.4) in microsoft. EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
<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>
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 59% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-327
- 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