7.8
CVSSv3

CVE-2020-0762

Published: 12/03/2020 Updated: 21/07/2021
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.6 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 409
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows Defender Security Center handles certain objects in memory.To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system, aka 'Windows Defender Security Center Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-0763.

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