CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-0683
High (7.8) in Microsoft Windows. In CISA KEV since 2021-11-03. EPSS 7.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Windows Installer when MSI packages process symbolic links, aka 'Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-0686.
Severity
- EPSS
- 7.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 94% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CISA KEV
- listed 2021-11-03, due 2022-05-03
- CWE
- CWE-59
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- microsoft:windows_10_1507
- microsoft:windows_10_1607
- microsoft:windows_10_1709
- microsoft:windows_10_1803
- microsoft:windows_10_1809
- microsoft:windows_10_1903
- microsoft:windows_10_1909
- microsoft:windows_7
- microsoft:windows_8.1
- microsoft:windows_rt_8.1
- microsoft:windows_server_1803
- microsoft:windows_server_1903
- microsoft:windows_server_1909
- microsoft:windows_server_2008
- microsoft:windows_server_2012
- microsoft:windows_server_2016
- microsoft:windows_server_2019