CVE detail
CVE-2020-1054 — Microsoft Win32k Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Published 2021-11-03 · Modified 2021-11-03 · Source kev
HIGH
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.5278
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
99.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
LISTED
CISA KEV
due 2022-05-03
⚠ Actively exploited in the wild — CISA KEV listed 2021-11-03, federal remediation due 2022-05-03.
Description
Microsoft Win32k contains a privilege escalation vulnerability when the Windows kernel-mode driver fails to properly handle objects in memory. Successful exploitation allows an attacker to execute code in kernel mode.
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References