CVE-2020-0798

HIGH

Windows Installer - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0104
EPSS Percentile 60.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (11)
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_server_2016
microsoft/windows_server_2016 1803
microsoft/windows_server_2016 1903
microsoft/windows_server_2016 1909
... and 1 more
Published Mar 12, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026