Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Vulnerability In Windows Kernel Cryptography Driver

There has been found a critical vulnerability (CVE-2020-17087) in Windows. The vulnerability is in the Windows Kernel Cryptography driver and an attacker may be able to exploit it for privilege escalation. The vulnerability was found by Google researchers and made public. The vulnerability is being exploited in the wild in tandem with a Google Chrome vulnerability (CVE-2020-15999).

Microsoft is expected to patch the vulnerability on November 10 as a part of the monthly Patch Tuesday.

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