CVE detail

CVE-2020-16980 — CVE-2020-16980

Published 2020-10-16 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor microsoft · Product windows_server_2012 · Source nvd
HIGH
severity
CVSS-derived band
7.8
CVSS v3
0–10 scale
0.0090
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
56.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog

Description

<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows iSCSI Target Service improperly handles file operations. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain elevated privileges.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would first need code execution on a victim system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted application.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by ensuring the Windows iSCSI Target Service properly handles file operations.</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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