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Tracker / CVE-2020-0951

CVE-2020-0951

Medium 6.7

<p>A security feature bypass vulnerability exists in Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC) which could allow an attacker to bypass WDAC enforcement. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute PowerShell commands that would be blocked by WDAC.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker need administrator access on a local machine where PowerShell is running. The attacker could then connect to a PowerShell session and send commands to execute arbitrary code.</p> <p>The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how PowerShell commands are validated when WDAC protection is enabled.</p>

Affected products and versions

microsoft powershell
microsoft powershell · 7.0 → 7.0.8
microsoft powershell · 7.1 → 7.1.5
microsoft windows_10
microsoft windows_server_2016
microsoft windows_server_2019

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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