Detections
Analytics
CVE-2020-16892
high
Description
<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows kernel image handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute code with elevated permissions.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, a locally authenticated attacker could run a specially crafted application.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by ensuring the Windows kernel image properly handles objects in memory.</p>
References
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-16892