CVE-2020-0683

high · 7.8Actively exploited

On the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Added 2021-11-03Remediation due 2022-05-03

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Windows Installer when MSI packages process symbolic links, aka 'Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-0686.

7.8

CVSS

7.6%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

94th

EPSS percentile

2020-02-11

Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-59

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
microsoft	windows_10_1507	all versions
microsoft	windows_10_1507	all versions
microsoft	windows_10_1607	all versions
microsoft	windows_10_1607	all versions
microsoft	windows_10_1709	all versions
microsoft	windows_10_1709	all versions
microsoft	windows_10_1709	all versions
microsoft	windows_10_1803	all versions
microsoft	windows_10_1803	all versions
microsoft	windows_10_1803	all versions
microsoft	windows_10_1809	all versions
microsoft	windows_10_1809	all versions
microsoft	windows_10_1809	all versions
microsoft	windows_10_1903	all versions
microsoft	windows_10_1903	all versions
microsoft	windows_10_1903	all versions
microsoft	windows_10_1909	all versions
microsoft	windows_10_1909	all versions
microsoft	windows_10_1909	all versions
microsoft	windows_7	all versions
microsoft	windows_8.1	all versions
microsoft	windows_rt_8.1	all versions
microsoft	windows_server_1803	all versions
microsoft	windows_server_1903	all versions
microsoft	windows_server_1909	all versions
microsoft	windows_server_2008	all versions
microsoft	windows_server_2008	r2
microsoft	windows_server_2008	r2
microsoft	windows_server_2012	all versions
microsoft	windows_server_2012	r2
microsoft	windows_server_2016	all versions
microsoft	windows_server_2019	all versions

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References

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