Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1709 vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-1079 [HIGH] CVE-2020-1079: An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows fails to properly handle objects in An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first

CVE-2020-1010 [HIGH] CVE-2020-1010: An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows Block Level Backup Engine Service (wbengin An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows Block Level Backup Engine Service (wbengine) that allows file deletion in arbitrary locations. To exploit the 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 affecte

CVE-2020-1486 [HIGH] CVE-2020-1486: An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel fails to properly handle obje An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel 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 exploit this vulnerability, a

CVE-2020-1114 [HIGH] CVE-2020-1114: An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel fails to properly handle obje An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel 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 exploit this vulnerability, a

CVE-2020-1068 [HIGH] CVE-2020-1068: An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows Media Service that allows file creation in An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows Media Service that allows file creation in arbitrary locations. To exploit the 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. The update addresses

CVE-2019-1164 [HIGH] CWE-1260 CVE-2019-1164: An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel fails to properly handle obje An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel 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 exploit this vulnera

CVE-2020-16887 [HIGH] CVE-2020-16887: <p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Network Connections Se An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Network Connections Service 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 ad

CVE-2020-1519 [HIGH] CVE-2020-1519: An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows UPnP Device Host improperly handles An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows UPnP Device Host improperly handles memory. 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 how the Wind

CVE-2020-1520 [HIGH] CVE-2020-1520: A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Windows Font Driver Host improperly handles me A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Windows Font Driver Host improperly handles memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability would gain execution on a victim system. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how the Windows Font Driver Host handles memory.

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-2020-16909 [HIGH] CVE-2020-16909: <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 the

CVE-2020-1077 [HIGH] CVE-2020-1077: An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Runtime improperly handles objects i An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Runtime improperly handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in an elevated context. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by running a specially crafted application on the victim system. The update addresses the vulnerabili

CVE-2020-1587 [HIGH] CVE-2020-1587: An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSoc An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock improperly handles memory. 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 c

CVE-2020-1090 [HIGH] CVE-2020-1090: An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Runtime improperly handles objects i An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Runtime improperly handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in an elevated context. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by running a specially crafted application on the victim system. The update addresses the vulnerabili

CVE-2020-1086 [HIGH] CVE-2020-1086: An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Runtime improperly handles objects i An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Runtime improperly handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in an elevated context. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by running a specially crafted application on the victim system. The update addresses the vulnerabili

CVE-2020-1078 [HIGH] CVE-2020-1078: An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows Installer because of the way Windows Insta An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows Installer because of the way Windows Installer handles certain filesystem operations. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would require unprivileged execution on the victim system. After successfully exploiting the vulnerability, an attacker could run arbitrary code with elevated privileges. An att

CVE-2020-1245 [HIGH] CVE-2020-1245: <p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Win32k component fails to prop An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Win32k component 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 exploit this vul

CVE-2020-1538 [HIGH] CVE-2020-1538: An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows UPnP Device Host improperly handles An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows UPnP Device Host improperly handles memory. 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 how the Wind

CVE-2020-1488 [HIGH] CWE-269 CVE-2020-1488: An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows AppX Deployment Extensions improperl An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows AppX Deployment Extensions improperly performs privilege management, resulting in access to system files. To exploit this vulnerability, an authenticated attacker would need to run a specially crafted application to elevate privileges. The security update addresses the vulnerability by corr

CVE-2020-1553 [HIGH] CVE-2020-1553: An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Runtime improperly handles objects i An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Runtime improperly handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in an elevated context. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by running a specially crafted application on the victim system. The update addresses the vulnerabili