CVE-2020-16916

Description

<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>

Weakness classification

• nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-noinfo

Primary references

• secure@microsoft.com — Patch, Vendor Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Patch, Vendor Advisory