CVE detail

CVE-2020-16905 — CVE-2020-16905

Published 2020-10-16 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor microsoft · Product windows_10 · Source nvd
MEDIUM
severity
CVSS-derived band
6.8
CVSS v3
0–10 scale
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 in Windows Error Reporting (WER) when WER handles and executes files. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker can successfully exploit it.</p> <p>An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could gain greater access to sensitive information and system functionality. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker could run a specially crafted application.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting the way that WER handles and executes files.</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

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