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CVE-2020-1159
published 2020-09-11

CVE-2020-1159: An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the StartTileData.dll handles file creation in protected locations. An attacker who successfully…

PriorityP340high7.8CVSS 3.1
AVLACLPRLUINSUCHIHAH
EPSS
0.72%
50.2th percentile
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. To exploit the vulnerability, a locally authenticated attacker could run a specially crafted application. The security update addresses the vulnerability by ensuring the StartTileData.dll properly handles this type of function.

Affected

24 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
microsoftwindows_10
microsoftwindows_10
microsoftwindows_10
microsoftwindows_10_version_1903_for_32-bit_systems>= 10.0.0 < publicationpublication
microsoftwindows_10_version_1903_for_arm64-based_systems>= 10.0.0 < publicationpublication
microsoftwindows_10_version_1903_for_x64-based_systems>= 10.0.0 < publicationpublication
microsoftwindows_10_version_1909>= 10.0.0 < publicationpublication
microsoftwindows_10_version_2004>= 10.0.0 < publicationpublication
microsoftwindows_server_2016
microsoftwindows_server_2016
microsoftwindows_server_2016
microsoftwindows_server_version_2004>= 10.0.0 < publicationpublication
msrcwindows_10_version_1903_for_32-bit_systems
msrcwindows_10_version_1903_for_arm64-based_systems
msrcwindows_10_version_1903_for_x64-based_systems
msrcwindows_10_version_1909_for_32-bit_systems
msrcwindows_10_version_1909_for_arm64-based_systems
msrcwindows_10_version_1909_for_x64-based_systems
msrcwindows_10_version_2004_for_32-bit_systems
msrcwindows_10_version_2004_for_arm64-based_systems
msrcwindows_10_version_2004_for_x64-based_systems
msrcwindows_server_version_1903
msrcwindows_server_version_1909
msrcwindows_server_version_2004

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvdv2.04.6MEDIUMAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
vendor_msrc5.3MEDIUM
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