CVE-2020-1471

HIGH

Microsoft Windows CloudExperienceHost - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Microsoft Windows CloudExperienceHost fails to check COM objects. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could gain elevated privileges on a targeted system.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would have to log on to an affected system and run a specially crafted script or application.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by checking COM objects.</p>

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.3
EPSS 0.0121
EPSS Percentile 65.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

Details

Status published
Products (10)
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_10 2004
microsoft/windows_server_2016
microsoft/windows_server_2019
Published Sep 11, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026