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Tracker / CVE-2020-1565

CVE-2020-1565

High 7.5

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the "Public Account Pictures" folder improperly handles junctions. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted application to elevate privileges. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Windows handles junctions.

Affected products and versions

microsoft windows_10
microsoft windows_7
microsoft windows_8.1
microsoft windows_rt_8.1
microsoft windows_server_2012
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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