CVE-2020-1151: Windows Runtime Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Overview

Severity: High (CVSS 7)
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/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-May
Released: 2020-05-12
EPSS Score: 12.13% (percentile: 93.8%)

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Runtime improperly handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in an elevated context. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by running a specially crafted application on the victim system. The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting the way the Windows Runtime handles objects in memory.

Affected Products (20)

Windows

Windows 10 Version 1909 for ARM64-based Systems
Windows 10 Version 1809 for 32-bit Systems
Windows Server, version 1803 (Server Core Installation)
Windows 10 Version 1903 for x64-based Systems
Windows 10 Version 1909 for x64-based Systems
Windows Server, version 1909 (Server Core installation)
Windows 10 Version 1809 for x64-based Systems
Windows 10 Version 1903 for ARM64-based Systems
Windows 10 Version 1803 for 32-bit Systems
Windows Server, version 1903 (Server Core installation)
Windows Server 2019
Windows 10 Version 1709 for ARM64-based Systems
Windows 10 Version 1709 for x64-based Systems
Windows 10 Version 1803 for x64-based Systems
Windows 10 Version 1909 for 32-bit Systems
Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)
Windows 10 Version 1803 for ARM64-based Systems
Windows 10 Version 1903 for 32-bit Systems
Windows 10 Version 1709 for 32-bit Systems
Windows 10 Version 1809 for ARM64-based Systems

Security Updates (4)

Acknowledgments

Zhiniang Peng (<a href="https://twitter.com/edwardzpeng">@edwardzpeng</a>) of Qihoo 360 Core security & Xuefeng Li

Revision History

2020-05-12: Information published.