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prionPRIOn knowledge basePRION:CVE-2020-16853
HistorySep 11, 2020 - 5:15 p.m.

Privilege escalation

2020-09-1117:15:00
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6.9 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

29.4%

<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the OneDrive for Windows Desktop application improperly handles symbolic links. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could overwrite a targeted file with an elevated status.</p>
<p>To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted application that could exploit the vulnerability and delete a targeted file with an elevated status.</p>
<p>The update addresses this vulnerability by correcting where the OneDrive updater performs file writes while running with elevation.</p>

6.9 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

29.4%