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.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-1163
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0085
EPSS Percentile
54.3%
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 (4)
microsoft/forefront_endpoint_protection_2010
microsoft/security_essentials
microsoft/system_center_endpoint_protection
2012 (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/windows_defender
Published
Jun 09, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026