CVE-2020-16877 (GCVE-0-2020-16877)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-10-16 22:17 – Updated: 2024-11-18 16:01
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Summary
<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Microsoft Windows improperly handles reparse points. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could overwrite or delete a targeted file that would normally require elevated permissions.</p>
<p>To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted application that could exploit the vulnerability and overwrite or delete files.</p>
<p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Windows handles reparse points.</p>
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-01-10 16:46 UTC
CWE
- Elevation of Privilege
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-… | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
8 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft | Windows 10 Version 1909 |
Affected:
10.0.0 , < publication
(custom)
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| Microsoft | Windows Server, version 1909 (Server Core installation) |
Affected:
10.0.0 , < publication
(custom)
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_1909:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
||
| Microsoft | Windows 10 Version 1903 for 32-bit Systems |
Affected:
10.0.0 , < publication
(custom)
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1903:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
||
| Microsoft | Windows 10 Version 1903 for x64-based Systems |
Affected:
10.0.0 , < publication
(custom)
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1903:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
||
| Microsoft | Windows 10 Version 1903 for ARM64-based Systems |
Affected:
10.0.0 , < publication
(custom)
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1903:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
||
| Microsoft | Windows Server, version 1903 (Server Core installation) |
Affected:
10.0.0 , < publication
(custom)
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_1903:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
||
| Microsoft | Windows 10 Version 2004 |
Affected:
10.0.0 , < publication
(custom)
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1809:*:*:*:*:*:*:x64:* |
||
| Microsoft | Windows Server version 2004 |
Affected:
10.0.0 , < publication
(custom)
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Date Public
2020-10-13 07:00
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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