Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1709 vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-0764 [HIGH] CVE-2020-0764: <p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Storage Services improperly handl An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Storage Services improperly handle file operations. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain elevated privileges. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would first need code execution on a victim system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted application. The

CVE-2020-16899 [HIGH] CVE-2020-16899: <p>A denial of service vulnerability exists when the Windows TCP/IP stack improperly handles ICMPv6 A denial of service vulnerability exists when the Windows TCP/IP stack improperly handles ICMPv6 Router Advertisement packets. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause a target system to stop responding. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have to send specially crafted ICMPv6 Router Advertisement packets to a remote W

CVE-2020-16905 [MEDIUM] CVE-2020-16905: <p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows Error Reporting (WER) when WER handles An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows Error Reporting (WER) when WER handles and executes files. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker can successfully exploit it. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could gain greater access to sensitive information and system functionality. To exploit t

CVE-2020-16974 [HIGH] CVE-2020-16974: <p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Backup Service improperly handles An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Backup Service improperly handles file operations. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted application to elevate privileges. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting ho

CVE-2020-16972 [HIGH] CVE-2020-16972: <p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Backup Service improperly handles An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Backup Service improperly handles file operations. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted application to elevate privileges. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting ho

CVE-2020-16892 [HIGH] CVE-2020-16892: <p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows kernel image handles o 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. To exploit the vulnerability, a locally authenticated attacker could run a specially crafted application. The security update addresses the vul

CVE-2020-16968 [HIGH] CWE-20 CVE-2020-16968: <p>A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Windows Camera Codec Pack improperly handle A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Windows Camera Codec Pack improperly handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of the affected syste

CVE-2020-16936 [HIGH] CVE-2020-16936: <p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Backup Service improperly handles An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Backup Service improperly handles file operations. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted application to elevate privileges. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting ho

CVE-2020-16973 [HIGH] CVE-2020-16973: <p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Backup Service improperly handles An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Backup Service improperly handles file operations. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted application to elevate privileges. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting ho

CVE-2020-16907 [HIGH] CVE-2020-16907: <p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Windows kernel-mode driver fai An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Windows kernel-mode driver fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. To expl

CVE-2020-16911 [HIGH] CVE-2020-16911: <p>A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Graphics Device Interfac A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Graphics Device Interface (GDI) handles objects in the memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take control of the affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users w

CVE-2020-16927 [HIGH] CVE-2020-16927: <p>A denial of service vulnerability exists in Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) when an attacker connec A denial of service vulnerability exists in Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) when an attacker connects to the target system using RDP and sends specially crafted requests. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause the RDP service on the target system to stop responding. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to run a sp

CVE-2020-16935 [HIGH] CVE-2020-16935: <p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows improperly handles COM object creatio An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows improperly handles COM object creation. 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 coul

CVE-2020-16916 [HIGH] CVE-2020-16916: <p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows improperly handles COM object creatio An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows improperly handles COM object creation. 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 coul

CVE-2020-16902 [HIGH] CWE-269 CVE-2020-16902: <p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Windows Installer when the Windows Installe An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Windows Installer when the Windows Installer fails to properly sanitize input leading to an insecure library loading behavior. A locally authenticated attacker could run arbitrary code with elevated system privileges. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create

CVE-2020-1243 [HIGH] CVE-2020-1243: <p>A denial of service vulnerability exists when Microsoft Hyper-V on a host server fails to properl A denial of service vulnerability exists when Microsoft Hyper-V on a host server fails to properly validate specific malicious data from a user on a guest operating system. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker who already has a privileged account on a guest operating system, running as a virtual machine, could run a specially crafted application. The secur

CVE-2020-16915 [HIGH] CWE-787 CVE-2020-16915: <p>A memory corruption vulnerability exists when Windows Media Foundation improperly handles objects A memory corruption vulnerability exists when Windows Media Foundation improperly handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. There are multiple ways an attacker could exploit the vulnerability, such as by convinc

CVE-2020-16939 [HIGH] CWE-59 CVE-2020-16939: <p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Group Policy improperly checks access. An att An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Group Policy improperly checks access. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run processes in an elevated context. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system, and then run a specially crafted application to take control over the affecte

CVE-2020-16897 [MEDIUM] CVE-2020-16897: <p>An information disclosure vulnerability exists when NetBIOS over TCP (NBT) Extensions (NetBT) imp An information disclosure vulnerability exists when NetBIOS over TCP (NBT) Extensions (NetBT) improperly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could obtain information to further compromise the user’s system. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have run a specially crafted application. The vulnerabi

CVE-2020-16922 [MEDIUM] CWE-347 CVE-2020-16922: <p>A spoofing vulnerability exists when Windows incorrectly validates file signatures. An attacker w A spoofing vulnerability exists when Windows incorrectly validates file signatures. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could bypass security features and load improperly signed files. In an attack scenario, an attacker could bypass security features intended to prevent improperly signed files from being loaded. The update addr