CVE-2020-1098

CVE-2020-1098 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability affecting Microsoft Windows 10, where the Shell infrastructure component improperly handles objects in memory. Successful exploitation allows an attacker to run processes in an elevated context after logging onto the system and executing a specially crafted application. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this local attack requires low complexity and no user interaction, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, though it has received some community discussion and media coverage.