Windows Zero-Day Still Circulating After Faulty Fix

A high-severity Windows zero-day that could lead to complete desktop takeover remains dangerous after a “fix” from Microsoft failed to adequately patch it. The local privilege-escalation bug in Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 CVE-2020-0986 exists in the Print Spooler API. It could allow a local attack...

Google Discloses Poorly-Patched, Now Unpatched, Windows 0-Day Bug

Google's Project Zero team has made public details of an improperly patched zero-day security vulnerability in Windows print spooler API that could be leveraged by a bad actor to execute arbitrary code. Details of the unpatched flaw were revealed publicly after Microsoft failed to rectify it with...

Operation PowerFall: CVE-2020-0986 and variants

In August 2020, we published a blog post about Operation PowerFall. This targeted attack consisted of two zero-day exploits: a remote code execution exploit for Internet Explorer 11 and an elevation of privilege exploit targeting the latest builds of Windows 10. While we already described the...

Internet Explorer and Windows zero-day exploits used in Operation PowerFall

Executive summary In May 2020, Kaspersky technologies prevented an attack on a South Korean company by a malicious script for Internet Explorer. Closer analysis revealed that the attack used a previously unknown full chain that consisted of two zero-day exploits: a remote code execution exploit f...

Microsoft Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege (CVE-2020-0986)

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. An attacker could then install programs, view, change, or delete data, or create ne...

Microsoft Windows Multiple Vulnerabilities (KB4560960)

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft KB4560960 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Microsoft Windows Multiple Vulnerabilities (KB4561612)

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft KB4561612 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

CVE-2020-0986

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka 'Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-1237, CVE-2020-1246, CVE-2020-1262, CVE-2020-1264, CVE-2020-1266, CVE-2020-1269,...

Privilege escalation

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Kernel handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-0986, CVE-2020-1246, CVE-2020-1262, CVE-2020-1264, CVE-2020-1266, CVE-2020-1269, CVE-2020-127...

Privilege escalation

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka 'Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-0986, CVE-2020-1237, CVE-2020-1262, CVE-2020-1264, CVE-2020-1266, CVE-2020-1269,...

CVE-2020-1275

Technical details for CVE-2020-1275 are not publicly available in the provided documents. Monitor for updates from official advisories; no confirmed affected products, impact, or remediation are stated here.

CVE-2020-0986

Technical details about CVE-2020-0986 are not publicly available in the provided connected documents. Please monitor for updates; current materials mention malware references in related EUVD entries but do not disclose affected products, vulnerable components, impact, or fixes.

CVE-2020-0986

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka 'Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-1237, CVE-2020-1246, CVE-2020-1262, CVE-2020-1264, CVE-2020-1266, CVE-2020-1269,...

CVE-2020-0986

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka 'Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-1237, CVE-2020-1246, CVE-2020-1262, CVE-2020-1264, CVE-2020-1266, CVE-2020-1269,...

CVE-2020-0986

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2020-05-20 16:44:14+00:00| seen| https://t.me/informationsecuritychannel/37956 2020-08-12 10:03:34+00:00| published-proof-of-concept| https://t.me/cKure/1816 2020-08-13 07:17:30+00:00| seen| MISP/ee40784a-dec9-4f4a-b95c-3d760d8a1e2a 2020-09-02...