Tracker / CVE-2020-16935
CVE-2020-16935
High 7.8
<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows improperly handles COM object creation. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code with elevated privileges.</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 how the Windows COM Server creates COM objects.</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
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