CVE-2020-1162: Microsoft Windows 10

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An elevation of privilege (user to user) vulnerability exists in Windows Security Health Service when handling certain objects in memory.To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system, aka 'Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-1324.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 10: version 1709 only; version 1803 only; version 1809 only; version 1903 only; version 1909 only; version 2004 only
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016: version 1803 only; version 1903 only; version 1909 only; version 2004 only
• Microsoft Windows Server 2019: affected versions not specified

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