CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-1078

Published: May 21, 2020 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
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
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
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An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows Installer because of the way Windows Installer handles certain filesystem operations.To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would require unprivileged execution on the victim system, aka Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Windows_10Microsoft- (including)- (including)
Windows_10Microsoft1607 (including)1607 (including)
Windows_10Microsoft1709 (including)1709 (including)
Windows_10Microsoft1803 (including)1803 (including)
Windows_10Microsoft1809 (including)1809 (including)
Windows_10Microsoft1903 (including)1903 (including)
Windows_10Microsoft1909 (including)1909 (including)
Windows_7Microsoft–sp1 (including)–sp1 (including)
Windows_8.1Microsoft- (including)- (including)
Windows_rt_8.1Microsoft- (including)- (including)
Windows_server_2008Microsoft–sp2 (including)–sp2 (including)
Windows_server_2008Microsoftr2-sp1 (including)r2-sp1 (including)
Windows_server_2012Microsoft- (including)- (including)
Windows_server_2012Microsoftr2 (including)r2 (including)
Windows_server_2016Microsoft- (including)- (including)
Windows_server_2016Microsoft1803 (including)1803 (including)
Windows_server_2016Microsoft1903 (including)1903 (including)
Windows_server_2016Microsoft1909 (including)1909 (including)
Windows_server_2019Microsoft- (including)- (including)

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