Tracker / CVE-2020-1170
CVE-2020-1170
High 7.8
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.
Affected products and versions
| microsoft | forefront_endpoint_protection_2010 |
|---|---|
| microsoft | security_essentials |
| microsoft | system_center_endpoint_protection |
| microsoft | windows_defender |
Analysis
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