CVE-2020-14956 Denial of service in n/a
Local attackers can cause a Blue Screen of Death in Windows cleaning assistant via improper input validation in the kernel driver.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2020-14956?
CVE-2020-14956 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 30 Jun 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In Windows cleaning assistant 3.2, the driver file (AtpKrnl.sys) allows local users to cause a denial of service (BSOD) or possibly have unspecified other impact because of not validating input values from IOCtl 0x223CCA.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-14956?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Arswp Windows Cleanup Assistant.
How do I fix CVE-2020-14956?
No fix has been published for CVE-2020-14956 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2020-14956 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-14956 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-8w3w-8h5h-4gcr.