CVE-2020-1476

MEDIUM

ASP.NET/.NET - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when ASP.NET or .NET web applications running on IIS improperly allow access to cached files. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain access to restricted files. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to send a specially crafted request to an affected server. The update addresses the vulnerability by changing how ASP.NET and .NET handle requests.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0113
EPSS Percentile 63.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

Status published
Products (11)
microsoft/.net_framework 2.0 sp2
microsoft/.net_framework 3.5
microsoft/.net_framework 4.6.2
microsoft/.net_framework 4.7
microsoft/.net_framework 4.7.1
microsoft/.net_framework 4.7.2
microsoft/.net_framework 4.6
microsoft/.net_framework 4.6.1
microsoft/.net_framework 4.8
microsoft/.net_framework 3.5.1
... and 1 more
Published Aug 17, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026