CVE-2020-0838 — NTFS Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when NTFS improperly checks access. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run processes in an elevate…
Published: 2020-09-11 · CVSS: 7.8 · CVSS 3.1
<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when NTFS improperly checks access. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run processes in an elevated context.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system, and then run a specially crafted application to take control over the affected system.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how NTFS checks access.</p>
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7