Microsoft Windows Lockscreen CVE-2020-1279 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows Lockscreen fails to properly load spotlight images from a secure location. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute commands with elevated permissions. An authenticated attacker could modify a registry value to exploit this vulnerability. The security update addresses the vulnerability by ensuring that the spotlight images are always loaded from a secure location.

Affected Applications

Windows Server version 2004 (Server Core installation)
Windows Server version 1903 (Server Core installation)
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server version 1803 (Server Core Installation)
Windows 10
Windows Server version 1909 (Server Core installation)
Windows Server 2019

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