CVE detail
CVE-2020-0838 — CVE-2020-0838
Published 2020-09-11 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor microsoft · Product windows_10 · Source nvd
HIGH
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.0100
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
60.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog
Description
<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>
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References