<p>A local elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in how splwow64.exe handles certain calls. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could elevate privileges on an affected system from low-integrity to medium-integrity.</p> <p>This vulnerability by itself does not allow arbitrary code execution; however, it could allow arbitrary code to be run if the attacker uses it in combination with another vulnerability (such as a remote code execution vulnerability or another elevation of privilege vulnerability) that is capable of leveraging the elevated privileges when code execution is attempted.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by ensuring splwow64.exe properly handles these calls..</p>
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: microsoft

Published: 2020-09-11T17:08:22

Updated: 2024-08-04T06:11:05.563Z

Reserved: 2019-11-04T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-0790

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-09-11T17:15:13.840

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:54:13.253

Link: CVE-2020-0790

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