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NTFS Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published Sep 11, 2020

Description

<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when NTFS improperly checks access. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run processes in an elevated context.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system, and then run a specially crafted application to take control over the affected system.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how NTFS checks access.</p>

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (2)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner microsoft
Published Sep 11, 2020
Updated Nov 18, 2024
Reserved Nov 4, 2019
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Jan 10, 2024
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
ENISA EUVD
Assigner microsoft
Published Sep 11, 2020
Updated Nov 18, 2024
Exploited since n/a
EUVD-2020-2310