CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-0798

Published: Mar 12, 2020 | Modified: Jul 21, 2021
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 the Windows Installer fails to properly sanitize input leading to an insecure library loading behavior.A locally authenticated attacker could run arbitrary code with elevated system privileges, aka Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-0779, CVE-2020-0814, CVE-2020-0842, CVE-2020-0843.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Windows_10 Microsoft 1607 (including) 1607 (including)
Windows_10 Microsoft 1709 (including) 1709 (including)
Windows_10 Microsoft 1803 (including) 1803 (including)
Windows_10 Microsoft 1809 (including) 1809 (including)
Windows_10 Microsoft 1903 (including) 1903 (including)
Windows_10 Microsoft 1909 (including) 1909 (including)
Windows_server_2016 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_server_2016 Microsoft 1803 (including) 1803 (including)
Windows_server_2016 Microsoft 1903 (including) 1903 (including)
Windows_server_2016 Microsoft 1909 (including) 1909 (including)
Windows_server_2019 Microsoft - (including) - (including)

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