CVE-2020-1568Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Microsoft Edge

Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
4.2%
top 11.29%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedAug 17
Latest updateMay 24

Description

A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Microsoft Edge PDF Reader improperly handles objects in memory. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in such a way that enables an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of an affected system. An attacker coul

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.6 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages1 packages

CVEListV5microsoft/microsoft_edge1.0..0publication

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-cqx5-p2pr-988q: A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Microsoft Edge PDF Reader improperly handles objects in memory, aka 'Microsoft Edge PDF Remote Code2022-05-24
CVEList
Microsoft Edge PDF Remote Code Execution Vulnerability2020-08-17

📋Vendor Advisories

1
Microsoft
Microsoft Edge PDF Remote Code Execution Vulnerability2020-08-11

🕵️Threat Intelligence

1
Tenable
Microsoft’s August 2020 Patch Tuesday Addresses 120 CVEs (CVE-2020-1337)2020-08-11
CVE-2020-1568 — Microsoft Edge vulnerability | cvebase