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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2020-0941

<p>An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the win32k component improperly provides kernel information.

MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 1.13%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.13%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

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>

CVSS 3.1
5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
1.13% probability · 65th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
microsoft/windows 10 · microsoft/windows 8.1 · microsoft/windows rt 8.1 · microsoft/windows server 2012 · microsoft/windows server 2016 · microsoft/windows server 2019
Source
secure@microsoft.com

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.