CVE-2020-1027: Microsoft Windows Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Kernel handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute code with elevated permissions.

Required action (CISA)

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Notes

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1027

Weakness behind it

CISA records this vulnerability as an instance of CWE-787. From there the chain continues into CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques, all inside this corpus.

References

• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1027
• KEV catalog: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog