CVE-2020-1507 — Microsoft COM for Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
<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 c…
Published: 2020-09-11 · CVSS: 7.9 · CVSS 3.1
<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>
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7