CVE-2020-0870

HIGH

Shell infrastructure component - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Shell infrastructure component improperly handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run processes in an elevated context.</p> <p>To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted application that could exploit the vulnerability and take control of an affected system.</p> <p>The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting the way in which the Shell infrastructure component handles objects in memory and preventing unintended elevation from lower integrity application.</p>

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0100
EPSS Percentile 59.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (8)
microsoft/windows_10 1607 (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/windows_10 1709
microsoft/windows_10 1803
microsoft/windows_10 1809
microsoft/windows_10 1903
microsoft/windows_10 1909
microsoft/windows_server_2016
microsoft/windows_server_2019
Published Sep 11, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026