CVE-2020-1179

CVE-2020-1179

Medium · published May 22, 2020

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
5%
Percentile
92.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the Windows GDI component improperly discloses the contents of its memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could obtain information to further compromise the user’s system.

There are multiple ways an attacker could exploit the vulnerability, such as by convincing a user to open a specially crafted document, or by convincing a user to visit an untrusted webpage.

The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how the Windows GDI component handles objects in memory.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.05218 · 92.5th percentile
Published
2020-05-22T03:15Z
Affected products (20)
ProductVersionsFixed in
microsoft/windows_10all versions—
microsoft/windows_10all versions—
microsoft/windows_10all versions—
microsoft/windows_10all versions—
microsoft/windows_10all versions—
microsoft/windows_10all versions—
microsoft/windows_10all versions—
microsoft/windows_7all versions—
microsoft/windows_8.1all versions—
microsoft/windows_rt_8.1all versions—
microsoft/windows_server_2008all versions—
microsoft/windows_server_2008all versions—
microsoft/windows_server_2008all versions—
microsoft/windows_server_2012all versions—
microsoft/windows_server_2012all versions—
microsoft/windows_server_2016all versions—
microsoft/windows_server_2016all versions—
microsoft/windows_server_2016all versions—
microsoft/windows_server_2016all versions—
microsoft/windows_server_2019all versions—
References (2)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 21 MAY 22:53Z
    An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the Windows GDI component improperly discloses the contents of its memory, aka 'Windows GDI Information…
    cvelistv5