CVE Catalog

CVE-2020-1154

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
0.86%

56th percentile - higher than 56% of all known CVEs

Summary

Elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) driver. An attacker who logs on can run a specially crafted application to run processes in an elevated context.

Risk Assessment

Ability to run processes with elevated privileges by a local attacker.

Recommendation

Install the security update that corrects how CLFS handles objects in memory.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) driver improperly handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run processes in an elevated context. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system, and then run a specially crafted application to take control over the affected system. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how CLFS handles objects in memory.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS