CVE-2020-16916

Impact

<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows improperly handles COM object creation. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code with elevated privileges.</p> <p>To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted application that could exploit the vulnerability and take control of an affected system.</p> <p>The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how the Windows COM Server creates COM objects.</p>

Affected products

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-16916
• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-16916