CVE-2020-1097: Windows Graphics Component Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Overview

Severity
Medium (CVSS 6.5)
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Category
Information Disclosure
Exploit Status
Not Exploited
Exploitation Likelihood
Less Likely
Patch Tuesday
2020-Sep
Released
2020-09-08
EPSS Score
22.32% (percentile: 95.8%)

Description

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the Windows GDI component improperly discloses the contents of its memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could obtain information to further compromise a user’s system. There are multiple ways an attacker could exploit the vulnerability, such as by convincing a user to open a specially crafted document or by convincing a user to visit an untrusted webpage. The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how the Windows GDI component handles objects in memory.

FAQ

What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability? The type of information that could be disclosed if an attacker successfully exploited this vulnerability is uninitialized memory.

Affected Products (44)

Other

  • 11497
  • 11498
  • 11563
  • 11568
  • 11569
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  • 11453
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  • 11766
  • 11767
  • 11768
  • 11769
  • 10729
  • 10735
  • 10852
  • 10853
  • 10816
  • 10855
  • 10047
  • 10048
  • 10481
  • 10482
  • 10484
  • 9312
  • 10287
  • 9318
  • 9344
  • 10051
  • 10049
  • 10378
  • 10379
  • 10483
  • 10543

Security Updates (15)

Acknowledgments

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Revision History

  • 2020-09-08: Information published.