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ghsa-pqr6-x3hm-vw74

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-24 17:27

Modified

2024-01-01 00:30

Severity ?

8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Wininit.dll handles objects in memory, aka 'WinINet API Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

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  "aliases": [
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    "severity": "HIGH"
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  "modified": "2024-01-01T00:30:40Z",
  "published": "2022-05-24T17:27:56Z",
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}

cve-2020-1012

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2020-09-11 17:08

Modified

2024-08-04 06:24

Severity ?

8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Summary

WinINet API Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-1012	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
	Microsoft	Internet Explorer 11

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Sightings

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Nomenclature

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Not patched: This vulnerability was not successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.

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