vulnerability

Microsoft Windows Defender Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CVE-2020-1170)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
2020-06-09
Added
2020-08-26
Modified
2022-09-08

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows Defender that leads arbitrary file deletion on the system.To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system, aka 'Microsoft Windows Defender Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-1163.

Solution

windows-defender-upgrade-latest
Title
NEW

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