Detections
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CVE-2020-0941
medium
Description
<p>An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the win32k component improperly provides kernel information. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could obtain information to further compromise the user’s system.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would have to either log on locally to an affected system, or convince a locally authenticated user to execute a specially crafted application.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how win32k handles objects in memory.</p>
References
https://www.tenable.com/blog/microsoft-s-september-2020-patch-tuesday-addresses-129-cves
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-0941