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-2020-1277, CVE-2020-1302, CVE-2020-1312.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-1272
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0076
EPSS Percentile
51.5%
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 (20)
microsoft/windows_10
(2 CPE variants)
microsoft/windows_10
1607
microsoft/windows_10
1709
microsoft/windows_10
1809
microsoft/windows_10
1903
microsoft/windows_10
1909
microsoft/windows_10
2004
microsoft/windows_7
(2 CPE variants)
microsoft/windows_8.1
(2 CPE variants)
microsoft/windows_rt_8.1
... and 10 more
Published
Jun 09, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026