Msrc Windows 8.1 vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-1302 [HIGH] Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Description: 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

CVE-2020-1287 [HIGH] Windows WalletService Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Windows WalletService Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Description: An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows WalletService 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-2020-1270 [HIGH] Windows WLAN Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Windows WLAN Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Description: An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the wlansvc.dll 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

CVE-2020-1300 [HIGH] Windows Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Windows Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Description: A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Microsoft Windows fails to properly handle cabinet files. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would have to convince a user to either open a specially crafted cabinet file or spoof a network printer and trick a user into installing a malicious cabinet file disguised as a printer driver. The update addresses the vulnerab

CVE-2020-1282 [HIGH] Windows Runtime Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Windows Runtime Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Description: 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 vulnera

CVE-2020-1262 [HIGH] Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Description: 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,

CVE-2020-1317 [HIGH] Group Policy Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Group Policy Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Description: 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 affected system. T

CVE-2020-1310 [MEDIUM] Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Description: 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 exploit this vulne

CVE-2020-1207 [HIGH] Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Description: 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 exploit this vulnera

CVE-2020-1251 [MEDIUM] Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Description: 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 exploit this vulne

CVE-2020-1160 [MEDIUM] Microsoft Graphics Component Information Disclosure Vulnerability Microsoft Graphics Component Information Disclosure Vulnerability Description: An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the Microsoft Windows Graphics Component improperly handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could obtain information to further compromise the user’s system. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have to log on to an affecte

CVE-2020-1194 [MEDIUM] Windows Registry Denial of Service Vulnerability Windows Registry Denial of Service Vulnerability Description: A denial of service vulnerability exists when Windows Registry improperly handles filesystem operations. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could cause a denial of service against a system. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker who has access to the system could run a specially crafted application. The security update addresses the vulne

CVE-2020-1348 [MEDIUM] Windows GDI Information Disclosure Vulnerability Windows GDI Information Disclosure Vulnerability Description: An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the Windows GDI component improperly discloses the contents of its memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could obtain information to further compromise the user’s system. There are multiple ways an attacker could exploit the vulnerability, such as by convincing a user to open a special

CVE-2020-1299 [HIGH] LNK Remote Code Execution Vulnerability LNK Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Description: A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Windows that could allow remote code execution if a .LNK file is processed. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative

CVE-2020-1253 [MEDIUM] Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Description: 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 exploit this vulne

CVE-2020-1263 [MEDIUM] Windows Error Reporting Information Disclosure Vulnerability Windows Error Reporting Information Disclosure Vulnerability Description: An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the way Windows Error Reporting (WER) handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could obtain information to further compromise the user’s system. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would have to log on to an affected system and run a special

CVE-2020-1175 [HIGH] Jet Database Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Jet Database Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Description: A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Windows Jet Database Engine improperly handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute arbitrary code on a victim system. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by enticing a victim to open a specially crafted file. The update addresses the v

CVE-2020-1112 [CRITICAL] Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Description: An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) IIS module improperly handles uploaded content. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could upload restricted file types to an IIS-hosted folder. To exploit thi

CVE-2020-0909 [HIGH] Windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability Windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability Description: A denial of service vulnerability exists when Hyper-V on a Windows Server fails to properly handle specially crafted network packets. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would send specially crafted network packets to the Hyper-V Server. The security update addresses the vulnerability by resolving the conditions where Hyper-V would fail to properly handle these

CVE-2020-1143 [HIGH] Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Description: 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 exploit this vulnera