CVE detail

CVE-2020-1152 — CVE-2020-1152

Published 2020-09-11 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor microsoft · Product windows_10 · Source nvd

MEDIUM

severity

CVSS-derived band

5.8

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0060

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

46.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows improperly handles calls to Win32k.sys. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could gain elevated privileges on a targeted system. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would have to log on to an affected system and run a specially crafted script or application. The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Windows handles calls to Win32k.

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

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