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CVE-2020-16852

7.1 highEPSS 0.9%

High (7.1) in microsoft onedrive. EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the OneDrive for Windows Desktop application improperly handles symbolic links. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could overwrite a targeted file with an elevated status.</p> <p>To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted application that could exploit the vulnerability and delete a targeted file with an elevated status.</p> <p>The update addresses this vulnerability by correcting where the OneDrive updater performs file writes while running with elevation.</p>

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.1 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 60% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published
Modified
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the NVD, synced

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