CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-0683

Published: Feb 11, 2020 | Modified: Apr 10, 2025
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Windows_10_1507 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_10_1607 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_10_1709 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_10_1803 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_10_1809 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_10_1903 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_10_1909 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_7 Microsoft –sp1 (including) –sp1 (including)
Windows_8.1 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_rt_8.1 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_server_1803 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_server_1903 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_server_1909 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_server_2008 Microsoft –sp2 (including) –sp2 (including)
Windows_server_2008 Microsoft r2-sp1 (including) r2-sp1 (including)
Windows_server_2012 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_server_2012 Microsoft r2 (including) r2 (including)
Windows_server_2016 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_server_2019 Microsoft - (including) - (including)

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