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October 21, 2020Severity
Medium
Analysis Summary
CVE-2020-16935
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows improperly handles COM object creation, aka ‘Windows COM Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability’. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code with elevated privileges. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted application that could exploit the vulnerability and take control of an affected system.
Impact
- Privilege Escalation
- Code Execution
- System Takeover
Affected Vendors
Microsoft
Affected Products
- Microsoft Windows 10
- Microsoft Windows 7
- Microsoft Windows 8.1
- Windows RT 8.1
- Windows Server 2008
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012
- Windows Server 2016
- Microsoft Windows Server 2019
- Windows Server
- version 1903 (Server Core installation)
- version 1909 (Server Core installation)
- version 2004 (Server Core installation)
Remediation
Updates are available. Update to latest version.
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-16935