May 23, 2022 · Applied Cybernetics Group
CVE-2020-1027 — Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
- Added to KEV
2022-05-23- Federal due date
2022-06-13- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Windows
- EPSS
- 93.9th percentile (score 0.119, as of
2026-06-08) - NVD CVSS v3.1
- —
- Ransomware use
- Unknown
- Upstream
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1027
CISA short description
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Kernel handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute code with elevated permissions.
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.