CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-1423

Published: Jul 14, 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

4.6 MEDIUM

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1423
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Subsystem for Linux handles files, aka Windows Subsystem for Linux Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Windows_10	Microsoft	2004 (including)	2004 (including)
Windows_server_2016	Microsoft	2004 (including)	2004 (including)

References

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-1423

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