CVE-2020-0839

HIGH Year: 2020
CVSS v3 Score
7.8
High
CVSS v2 Score
4.6
Medium
Weakness Type
NVD-CWE-Other
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Vulnerability Description

<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the dnsrslvr.dll handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute code with elevated permissions.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, a locally authenticated attacker could run a specially crafted application.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by ensuring the dnsrslvr.dll properly handles objects in memory.</p>

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