CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-0849
High (7.8) in microsoft. EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows improperly handles hard links, aka 'Windows Hard Link Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-0840, CVE-2020-0841, CVE-2020-0896.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 59% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- microsoft:windows_10
- microsoft:windows_7
- microsoft:windows_8.1
- microsoft:windows_rt_8.1
- microsoft:windows_server_2008
- microsoft:windows_server_2012
- microsoft:windows_server_2016
- microsoft:windows_server_2019