CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-0635
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-01-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
Description
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Microsoft Windows when Windows fails to properly handle certain symbolic links, aka 'Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-0644.
Affected configurations
• microsoft windows 10
• microsoft windows 10 1607
• microsoft windows 10 1709
• microsoft windows 10 1803
• microsoft windows 10 1809
• microsoft windows 10 1903
• microsoft windows 10 1909
• microsoft windows 7
• microsoft windows 8.1
• microsoft windows rt 8.1
• microsoft windows server 2008
• microsoft windows server 2008 r2
• microsoft windows server 2012
• microsoft windows server 2012 r2
• microsoft windows server 2016
• microsoft windows server 2016 1803
• microsoft windows server 2016 1903
• microsoft windows server 2016 1909
• microsoft windows server 2019
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-0635 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-143/ Third Party Advisory
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-0635 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-143/ Third Party Advisory