CVE-2020-0843

moderate-risk

Published 2020-03-12

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows Installer because of the way Windows Installer handles certain filesystem operations.To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would require unprivileged execution on the victim system, aka 'Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-0779, CVE-2020-0798, CVE-2020-0814, CVE-2020-0842.

Do I need to act?

0.53% chance of exploitation

EPSS score — low exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 7.8/10 High

LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (20)

Windows 10

Windows 7

Windows 8.1

Windows Rt 8.1

Windows Server 2008

Windows Server 2012

Windows Server 2016

Windows Server 2019

Affected Vendors

Microsoft

References (2)

Patch https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-0843

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moderate-risk

Severity 24/34 · High

Exploitability 2/34 · Minimal

Exposure 20/34 · Moderate