Security News > 2020 > May > Researchers Divulge Details on Five Windows Zero Days
Security researchers working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative have published information on five unpatched vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, including four considered high risk.
Tracked as CVE-2020-0916, CVE-2020-0986, and CVE-2020-0915, and featuring a CVSS score of 7.0, the first three of these zero-day vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to escalate privileges on the affected system.
The security flaws were identified in the user-mode printer driver host process splwow64.
Adversaries looking to exploit these security flaws would first need to gain low privilege access to the system.
The security researchers also revealed that Microsoft was informed on the vulnerability in January, but said that a patch won't be released for the issue.
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Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-06-09 | CVE-2020-0915 | Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in Microsoft products An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Graphics Device Interface (GDI) handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows GDI Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. | 7.2 |
| 2020-06-09 | CVE-2020-0916 | Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in Microsoft products An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Graphics Device Interface (GDI) handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows GDI Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. | 7.2 |
| 2020-06-09 | CVE-2020-0986 | Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Microsoft products An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka 'Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. | 7.2 |