CVE-2020-0798 Information

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Windows Installer when the Windows Installer fails to properly sanitize input leading to an insecure library loading behavior.A locally authenticated attacker could run arbitrary code with elevated system privileges aka ‘Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability’. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-0779 CVE-2020-0814 CVE-2020-0842 CVE-2020-0843.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-0798

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8