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CVE-2020-1159

6.6 mediumEPSS 0.7%

Medium (6.6) in microsoft. EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the StartTileData.dll handles file creation in protected locations. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute code with elevated permissions.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, a locally authenticated attacker could run a specially crafted application.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by ensuring the StartTileData.dll properly handles this type of function.</p>

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.6 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
EPSS
0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 53% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

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