Cybersecurity Alerts

Microsoft Windows Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Kernel handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute code with elevated permissions.

Required Action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Weakness Classification

CWE-787

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1027