CVE-2020-1013
high-risk
Published 2020-09-11
<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Microsoft Windows processes group policy updates. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could potentially escalate permissions or perform additional privileged actions on the target machine.</p> <p>To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to launch a man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attack against the traffic passing between a domain controller and the target machine. An attacker could then create a group policy to grant administrator rights to a standard user.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by enforcing Kerberos authentication for certain calls over LDAP.</p>
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32.2% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 68% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
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CVSS 7.5/10
High
ADJACENT_NETWORK
/ HIGH complexity
Affected Products (20)
Affected Vendors
56
/ 100
high-risk
Severity
20/34 · Moderate
Exploitability
16/34 · Moderate
Exposure
20/34 · Moderate