{"id":14771,"date":"2020-06-16T08:27:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T06:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=14771"},"modified":"2024-07-26T17:40:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T15:40:36","slug":"windows-10-security-flaws-in-privacy-telemetry-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2020\/06\/16\/windows-10-security-flaws-in-privacy-telemetry-fixed\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10: Security flaws in Privacy\/Telemetry fixed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/win102.jpg\" width=\"58\" height=\"58\" align=\"left\" \/>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/16\/windows-10-schwachstelle-in-privatsphre-telemetrie-gefixt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German<\/a>]With the latest June 2020 security updates, Microsoft has fixed also a so-called Privilege Escalation bugs that was in the components of Windows 10 for privacy and telemetry.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I've seen it before, but I became aware of it again via subsequent tweets. Here is such a tweet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Microsoft fixes privilege escalation bug in Windows 10 privacy and telemetry components<\/p>\n<p>Not a big deal, but interesting research as someone actually looked at it for security flaws.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g8YlyuTNs4\">https:\/\/t.co\/g8YlyuTNs4<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ikYazOx6Fn\">pic.twitter.com\/ikYazOx6Fn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Catalin Cimpanu (@campuscodi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/campuscodi\/status\/1272465118677393408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fortinet security researchers who discovered it go into the details in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortinet.com\/blog\/threat-research\/fortiguard-labs-security-researcher-discovers-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-in-windows-platform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this blog post<\/a>. The vulnerability in Windows 10 has been detected in Jan 2020 and has been described and fixed by Microsoft (see <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.msrc.microsoft.com\/en-US\/security-guidance\/advisory\/CVE-2020-1296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CVE-2020-1296<\/a>). The vulnerability affects Windows 10 version 1809 and above and Windows Server version 1903 and above.<\/p>\n<p>It also affects Windows Server 2019 and Windows 10 version 2004. The researchers write about a <em>Privilege Escalation &amp; User-Privacy Settings Violation<\/em> problem and assign it a high importance.\u00a0Admins and users should install the patches provided by Microsoft to fix the vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]With the latest June 2020 security updates, Microsoft has fixed also a so-called Privilege Escalation bugs that was in the components of Windows 10 for privacy and telemetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580,2],"tags":[69,76],"class_list":["post-14771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-windows","tag-security","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34644,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14771\/revisions\/34644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}