Windows Lockscreen Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - CVE-2020-1279ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:63696 | Date: (C)2020-06-10 (M)2024-03-06 |
Class: VULNERABILITY | Family: windows |
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows Lockscreen fails to properly load spotlight images from a secure location. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute commands with elevated permissions.An authenticated attacker could modify a registry value to exploit this vulnerability.The security update addresses the vulnerability by ensuring that the spotlight images are always loaded from a secure location.
Platform: |
Microsoft Windows Server |
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 |
Microsoft Windows 10 |