CVE-2020-0740: Connected Devices Platform Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Overview
- Severity
- High (CVSS 7.8)
- CVSS Vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
- Category
- Elevation of Privilege
- Exploit Status
- Not Exploited
- Exploitation Likelihood
- Less Likely
- Patch Tuesday
- 2020-Feb
- Released
- 2020-02-11
- EPSS Score
- 0.50% (percentile: 66.1%)
Description
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Connected Devices Platform Service handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute code with elevated permissions.
To exploit the vulnerability, a locally authenticated attacker could run a specially crafted application.
The security update addresses the vulnerability by ensuring the Connected Devices Platform Service properly handles objects in memory.
Affected Products (20)
Windows
- Windows 10 Version 1803 for 32-bit Systems
- Windows 10 Version 1803 for x64-based Systems
- Windows Server, version 1803 (Server Core Installation)
- Windows 10 Version 1803 for ARM64-based Systems
- Windows 10 Version 1809 for 32-bit Systems
- Windows 10 Version 1809 for x64-based Systems
- Windows 10 Version 1809 for ARM64-based Systems
- Windows Server 2019
- Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)
- Windows 10 Version 1709 for 32-bit Systems
- Windows 10 Version 1709 for x64-based Systems
- Windows 10 Version 1709 for ARM64-based Systems
- Windows 10 Version 1903 for 32-bit Systems
- Windows 10 Version 1903 for x64-based Systems
- Windows 10 Version 1903 for ARM64-based Systems
- Windows Server, version 1903 (Server Core installation)
- Windows 10 Version 1909 for 32-bit Systems
- Windows 10 Version 1909 for x64-based Systems
- Windows 10 Version 1909 for ARM64-based Systems
- Windows Server, version 1909 (Server Core installation)
Security Updates (4)
Acknowledgments
Anonymous researcher
Revision History
- 2020-02-11: Information published.