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October 2020
Vulnerabilities first published in this month (UTC), newest first.
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High 7.0
Microsoft Word Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
<p>A security feature bypass vulnerability exists in Microsoft Word software when it fails to properly handle .LNK files. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could use a specially crafted file to perform actions in the security context of…
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High 7.8
Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
<p>A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Excel software when the software fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If …
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High 7.8
Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
<p>A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Excel software when the software fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If …
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High 7.8
Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
<p>A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Excel software when the software fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If …
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High 7.8
Microsoft Office Click-to-Run Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that Microsoft Office Click-to-Run (C2R) AppVLP handles certain files. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could elevate privileges.</p> <p>To exploit this vulnerability, an att…
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High 7.5
Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) Denial of Service Vulnerability
<p>A denial of service vulnerability exists in Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) when an attacker connects to the target system using RDP and sends specially crafted requests. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause the RDP service o…
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High 7.8
Jet Database Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
<p>A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Windows Jet Database Engine improperly handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute arbitrary code on a victim system.</p> <p>An attacker could expl…
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High 7.8
Microsoft Graphics Components Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
<p>A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that Microsoft Graphics Components handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute arbitrary code on a target system.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerabili…
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High 7.8
Windows Application Compatibility Client Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Application Compatibility Client Library improperly handles registry operations. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain elevated privileges.</p> <p>To exploit the…
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High 7.8
Windows COM Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows improperly handles COM object creation. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code with elevated privileges.</p> <p>To exploit this vulnerability, an attacke…
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High 7.8
Base3D Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
<p>A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Base3D rendering engine improperly handles memory.</p> <p>An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability would gain execution on a victim system.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulne…
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High 7.8
Media Foundation Memory Corruption Vulnerability
<p>A memory corruption vulnerability exists when Windows Media Foundation improperly handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full use…
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High 7.8
Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Windows kernel-mode driver fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. An attacker could t…
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High 7.8
Windows Backup Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Backup Service improperly handles file operations.</p> <p>To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim system. An attacker could then run a speci…
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High 8.8
GDI+ Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
<p>A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Graphics Device Interface (GDI) handles objects in the memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take control of the affected system. An attacker could t…
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High 7.8
Windows Error Reporting Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows Error Reporting (WER) when WER handles and executes files. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker can successfully exploit it.</p> <p>An attacker who successfully exploi…
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High 7.8
Windows Setup Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows Setup in the way it handles directories.</p> <p>A locally authenticated attacker could run arbitrary code with elevated system privileges. After successfully exploiting the vulnerability, an attacke…
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High 7.8
Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Windows kernel-mode driver fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. An attacker could t…
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High 7.8
Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Windows Installer when the Windows Installer fails to properly sanitize input leading to an insecure library loading behavior.</p> <p>A locally authenticated attacker could run arbitrary code with eleva…
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High 7.5
Windows TCP/IP Denial of Service Vulnerability
<p>A denial of service vulnerability exists when the Windows TCP/IP stack improperly handles ICMPv6 Router Advertisement packets. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause a target system to stop responding.</p> <p>To exploit this …
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High 7.0
Windows Event System Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Event System improperly handles objects in memory.</p> <p>To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim system. An attacker could then run a speci…
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High 8.8
Windows TCP/IP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
<p>A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Windows TCP/IP stack improperly handles ICMPv6 Router Advertisement packets. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the ability to execute code on the target server or clie…
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High 7.8
Windows Error Reporting Manager Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows Error Reporting manager improperly handles a process crash. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could delete a targeted file leading to an elevated status.</p> <p>To exploit …
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High 7.5CVE-2020-16896 EPSS 13%
Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) Information Disclosure Vulnerability
<p>An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) when an attacker connects to the target system using RDP and sends specially crafted requests. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could obtain informatio…
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High 7.8
Windows Image Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows kernel image handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute code with elevated permissions.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, a…
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High 7.7
Windows NAT Denial of Service Vulnerability
<p>A denial of service vulnerability exists when Windows Network Address Translation (NAT) on a host server fails to properly validate input from a privileged user on a guest operating system. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could cau…
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High 8.8
Windows Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
<p>A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Windows Hyper-V on a host server fails to properly validate input from an authenticated user on a guest operating system. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker could run a specially crafted application …
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High 7.8
Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. An attacker could then install programs; v…
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High 7.8
Windows Network Connections Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Network Connections Service handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute code with elevated permissions.</p> <p>To exploit the v…
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High 7.8
Windows Storage VSP Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Storage VSP Driver improperly handles file operations. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain elevated privileges.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, an attacke…
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High 7.1
Windows Application Compatibility Client Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Application Compatibility Client Library improperly handles registry operations. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain elevated privileges.</p> <p>To exploit the…
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High 7.1
Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Microsoft Windows improperly handles reparse points. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could overwrite or delete a targeted file that would normally require elevated permissions.</…
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High 7.8
Windows Storage Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Storage Services improperly handle file operations. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain elevated privileges.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker w…
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High 7.5
Windows Remote Desktop Service Denial of Service Vulnerability
<p>A denial of service vulnerability exists in Windows Remote Desktop Service when an attacker connects to the target system using RDP and sends specially crafted requests. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause the Remote Deskt…
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High 7.5
Junos OS: Kernel crash (vmcore) upon receipt of a malformed IPv6 packet.
On Juniper Networks Junos OS devices, receipt of a malformed IPv6 packet may cause the system to crash and restart (vmcore). This issue can be trigged by a malformed IPv6 packet destined to the Routing Engine. An attacker can repeatedly send the offending pac…
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High 7.5
Junos OS: SRX Series: High CPU load due to processing for HTTP traffic when Application Identification is enabled.
On Juniper Networks SRX Series configured with application identification inspection enabled, receipt of specific HTTP traffic can cause high CPU load utilization, which could lead to traffic interruption. Application identification is enabled by default and …
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High 7.5
Junos OS: Memory leak leads to kernel crash (vmcore) due to SNMP polling
On Juniper Networks Junos OS devices, a specific SNMP OID poll causes a memory leak which over time leads to a kernel crash (vmcore). Prior to the kernel crash other processes might be impacted, such as failure to establish SSH connection to the device. The a…
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High 7.5
Junos OS: PTX/QFX Series: Kernel Routing Table (KRT) queue stuck after packet sampling a malformed packet when the tunnel-observation mpls-over-udp configuration is enabled.
On Juniper Networks PTX and QFX Series devices with packet sampling configured using tunnel-observation mpls-over-udp, sampling of a malformed packet can cause the Kernel Routing Table (KRT) queue to become stuck. KRT is the module within the Routing Process …
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High 7.2
Juniper Networks Mist Cloud UI: SAML authentication attribute elements handling vulnerability.
When SAML authentication is enabled, Juniper Networks Mist Cloud UI might incorrectly handle child elements in SAML responses, allowing a remote attacker to modify a valid SAML response without invalidating its cryptographic signature to bypass SAML authentic…
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High 8.3
Juniper Networks Mist Cloud UI: SAML authentication certificate vulnerability.
When Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) authentication is enabled, Juniper Networks Mist Cloud UI might incorrectly process invalid authentication certificates which could allow a malicious network-based user to access unauthorized data. This issue aff…