Tracked as CVE-2020-17008, the new vulnerability was reported to Microsoft on September 24. As per Project Zero’s policy, details were made public 90 days later, on December 23, despite the fact that Microsoft missed the patch deadline.
Disclosed in May 2020, CVE-2020-0986 was initially reported to Microsoft in December 2019 and a patch was released in June 2020. Attacks targeting the vulnerability were observed within days after disclosure.
In August 2020, Kaspersky published information on attacks chaining CVE-2020-0986 with a zero-day in Internet Explorer, as part of an attack campaign referred to as Operation PowerFall.
