CVE-2020-16901: Microsoft Windows 10

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

<p>An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel improperly initializes objects in memory.</p> <p>To exploit this vulnerability, an authenticated attacker could run a specially crafted application. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could obtain information to further compromise the user’s system.</p> <p>The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how the Windows kernel initializes objects in memory.</p>

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 10: version 1909 only
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016: version 1909 only

Published 2020-10-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.