CVE-2020-1190: 
vulnerability analysis and mitigation

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows State Repository Service improperly handles objects in memory, identified as CVE-2020-1190. This vulnerability was disclosed on May 21, 2020, affecting multiple versions of Microsoft Windows including Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 (NVD).

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.8 (HIGH) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H. This indicates that the vulnerability requires local access, low attack complexity, low privileges, and no user interaction to exploit. The vulnerability can lead to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (NVD).

If successfully exploited, this vulnerability could allow an attacker to gain elevated privileges on affected systems. The high CVSS score indicates that successful exploitation could result in significant impact to system confidentiality, integrity, and availability (NVD).

The vulnerability requires local access and low privileges to exploit, suggesting that an attacker would need some form of prior access to the target system. The attack complexity is rated as low, indicating that the vulnerability is relatively straightforward to exploit once access is obtained (NVD).

Microsoft has released security updates to address this vulnerability. Users should apply the appropriate patches through Windows Update to protect their systems (Microsoft Advisory).