CVE Catalog

CVE-2020-1138

HighCVSS 7.0
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
0.86%

56th percentile - higher than 56% of all known CVEs

Summary

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in Storage Service due to improper handling of file operations. An attacker could gain elevated privileges on the victim system.

Risk Assessment

Gaining elevated privileges could allow an attacker to perform unauthorized actions on the system.

Recommendation

Apply the security update that corrects how Storage Service handles file operations.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Storage Service improperly handles file operations. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain elevated privileges on the victim system. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim system, then run a specially crafted application. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how the Storage Services handles file operations.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS