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CVE-2020-16928

7.8 highEPSS 3.4%

High (7.8) in microsoft. EPSS 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that Microsoft Office Click-to-Run (C2R) AppVLP handles certain files. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could elevate privileges.</p> <p>To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to convince a user to open a specially crafted file.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft Office Click-to-Run (C2R) components handle these files.</p>

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 88% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published
Modified
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