Tracker / CVE-2020-1378
CVE-2020-1378
High 7.5
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Kernel API improperly handles registry objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could gain elevated privileges on a targeted system. A locally authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by running a specially crafted application. The security update addresses the vulnerability by helping to ensure that the Windows Kernel API properly handles objects in memory.
Affected products and versions
| 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 |
Analysis
This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.