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Microsoft COM for Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published Sep 11, 2020

Description

<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that Microsoft COM for Windows handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could gain elevated privileges on a targeted system.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, a user would have to open a specially crafted file.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft COM for Windows handles objects in memory.</p>

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (1)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner microsoft
Published Sep 11, 2020
Updated Aug 4, 2024
Reserved Nov 4, 2019
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a