CVSS 3.1
5.0 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2020-16901
Medium (5.0) in microsoft. EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
<p>An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel improperly initializes objects in memory.</p>
<p>To exploit this vulnerability, an authenticated attacker could run a specially crafted application. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could obtain information to further compromise the user’s system.</p>
<p>The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how the Windows kernel initializes objects in memory.</p>
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 73% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-665
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- microsoft:windows_10
- microsoft:windows_server_2016