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Tracker / CVE-2020-16896

CVE-2020-16896

High 7.5

<p>An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) when an attacker connects to the target system using RDP and sends specially crafted requests. 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 need to run a specially crafted application against a server which provides Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) services.</p> <p>The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how RDP handles connection requests.</p>

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.

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