CVE-2020-1021 – An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows Error Reporting

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows Error Reporting (WER) when WER handles and executes files, aka ‘Windows Error Reporting Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability’. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-1082, CVE-2020-1088.

 

Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-1021

Reference (s):

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/158028/Microsoft-Windows-Privilege-Escalation-Code-Execution.html
• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-1021