CVE-2020-16938

EIP tracks 2 public exploits for CVE-2020-16938. PoCs published by ioncodes, mrlayle.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This PoC exploits CVE-2020-16938 to bypass NTFS permissions, allowing an unprivileged user to read arbitrary files on the disk. It uses Windows API calls to open a handle to a disk device via the \Global?? directory and symbolic link traversal.

<p>An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel improperly handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could obtain information to further compromise the user’s system.</p> <p>To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have to log on to an affected system and run a specially crafted application. The vulnerability would not allow an attacker to execute code or to elevate user rights directly, but it could be used to obtain information that could be used to try to further compromise the affected system.</p> <p>The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how the Windows kernel handles objects in memory.</p>