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Windows Denial of Service Vulnerability

Published May 21, 2020

Description

A denial of service vulnerability exists when Windows improperly handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could cause a target system to stop responding. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have to log on to an affected system and run a specially crafted application. The vulnerability would not allow an attacker to execute code or to elevate user rights directly, but it could be used to cause a target system to stop responding. The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Windows handles objects in memory.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (3)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED
Assigner microsoft
Published May 21, 2020
Updated Aug 19, 2026
Reserved Nov 4, 2019

CISA Vulnrichment

No data

NVD

Status Modified
Modified Aug 19, 2026

Red Hat

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ENISA EUVD

Assigner microsoft
Published May 21, 2020
Updated Aug 19, 2026

GitHub

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