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Microsoft Windows: CVE-2020-16905: Windows Error Reporting Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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Microsoft Windows: CVE-2020-16905: Windows Error Reporting Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/13/2020
Created
10/14/2020
Added
10/13/2020
Modified
06/27/2024

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows Error Reporting (WER) when WER handles and executes files, aka 'Windows Error Reporting Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-16909.

Solution(s)

  • microsoft-windows-windows_10-1507-kb4580327
  • microsoft-windows-windows_10-1607-kb4580346
  • microsoft-windows-windows_10-1709-kb4580328
  • microsoft-windows-windows_10-1803-kb4580330
  • microsoft-windows-windows_10-1809-kb4577668
  • microsoft-windows-windows_10-1903-kb4577671
  • microsoft-windows-windows_10-1909-kb4577671
  • microsoft-windows-windows_10-2004-kb4579311
  • msft-kb4577668-79a95e38-d1bc-434b-8a49-eb0e05941333
  • msft-kb4577671-c42dc613-fb5b-4c45-925c-4f508584a635
  • msft-kb4577671-ddbf4c81-6ca7-4986-999e-9275ef508017
  • msft-kb4579311-e9f0550d-b150-4eeb-bf5e-1a08b117e7af
  • msft-kb4580346-a33fefeb-b078-4cde-b9b9-f3473007bef2

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