CVSS 3.1
7.0 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-16900
High (7.0) in microsoft. EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Event System improperly handles objects in memory.</p>
<p>To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted application to elevate privileges.</p>
<p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how the Windows Event System handles objects in memory.</p>
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 53% 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