CVE-2020-16995

HIGH

Network Watcher Agent - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Network Watcher Agent virtual machine extension for Linux. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute code with elevated privileges.</p> <p>To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have to be present as a user on the affected virtual machine.</p> <p>The security update addresses this vulnerability by correcting how Network Watcher Agent virtual machine extension for Linux executes with elevated privileges.</p>

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0098
EPSS Percentile 58.7%
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 (1)
microsoft/network_watcher_agent
Published Oct 16, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026