CVE-2020-1047

high

Description

<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows Hyper-V on a host server fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could gain elevated privileges on a target operating system.</p> <p>This vulnerability by itself does not allow arbitrary code to be run. However, this vulnerability could be used in conjunction with one or more vulnerabilities (e.g. a remote code execution vulnerability and another elevation of privilege) that could take advantage of the elevated privileges when running.</p> <p>The update addresses the vulnerabilities by correcting how Windows Hyper-V handles objects in memory.</p>

References

https://www.tenable.com/blog/microsoft-october-2020-patch-tuesday-87-cves-bad-neighbor-windows-tcp-ip-cve-2020-16898

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-1047

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-10-16

Updated: 2023-12-31

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High