7.8
CVSSv3

CVE-2020-0642

Published: 14/01/2020 Updated: 26/04/2022
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 643
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Win32k component fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka 'Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-0624.

Vulnerability Trend

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microsoft windows server 2008 r2

microsoft windows server 2012 r2

microsoft windows 10 1607

microsoft windows 8.1 -

microsoft windows server 2016 -

microsoft windows server 2008 -

microsoft windows 7 -

microsoft windows rt 8.1 -

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microsoft windows 10 -

microsoft windows 10 1709

microsoft windows 10 1803

microsoft windows 10 1809

microsoft windows 10 1903

microsoft windows 10 1909

microsoft windows server 2016 1803

microsoft windows server 2016 1903

microsoft windows server 2016 1909

microsoft windows server 2019 -

Exploits

Microsoft Windows Win32k privilege escalation exploit An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Win32k component fails to properly handle objects in memory An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode ...

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