Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-1459 - Information Exposure Through Discrepancy vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
An information disclosure vulnerability exists on ARM implementations that use speculative execution in control flow via a side-channel analysis, aka "straight-line speculation." To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker with local privileges would need to run a specially crafted application. The security update addresses the vulnerability by bypassing the speculative execution.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| OS | 4 |