CVE-2020-1098: Microsoft Windows 10

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Shell infrastructure component improperly handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run processes in an elevated context.</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 the way in which the Shell infrastructure component handles objects in memory and preventing unintended elevation from lower integrity application.</p>

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 10: version 2004 only

Published 2020-09-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.