CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-1163

7.8 HIGH Published 2020-06-09 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-06-09
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

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows Defender that leads arbitrary file deletion on the system.To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system, aka 'Microsoft Windows Defender Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-1170.

Affected configurations

• microsoft windows defender • microsoft forefront endpoint protection 2010 • microsoft security essentials • microsoft system center endpoint protection 2012

References