CVE-2020-0875

Microsoft splwow64 Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Medium · published September 11, 2020

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
4%
Percentile
91.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

<p>An information disclosure vulnerability exists in how splwow64.exe handles certain calls. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could obtain information to further compromise the user’s system (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>

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.04441 · 91.4th percentile
Published
2020-09-11T17:08Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 SEP 17:08Z
    Microsoft splwow64 Information Disclosure Vulnerability
    cvelistv5