CVE-2020-16964

HIGH

Windows Backup Engine - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

Windows Backup Engine Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Core 2

Core References

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory patch

Patch, Vendor Advisory

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0116

EPSS Percentile 64.0%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Status published

Products (39)

Microsoft/Windows 10 Version 1507 10.0.10240.0 - publication

Microsoft/Windows 10 Version 1607 10.0.14393.0 - publication

Microsoft/Windows 10 Version 1803 10.0.0 - publication

Microsoft/Windows 10 Version 1809 10.0.0 - publication

Microsoft/Windows 10 Version 1809 10.0.17763.0 - publication

Microsoft/Windows 10 Version 1903 for 32-bit Systems 10.0.0 - publication

Microsoft/Windows 10 Version 1903 for ARM64-based Systems 10.0.0 - publication

Microsoft/Windows 10 Version 1903 for x64-based Systems 10.0.0 - publication

Microsoft/Windows 10 Version 1909 10.0.0 - publication

Microsoft/Windows 10 Version 2004 10.0.0 - publication

... and 29 more

Published Dec 10, 2020

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026