7.2
CVSSv2

CVE-2020-0798

Published: 12/03/2020 Updated: 21/07/2021
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 642
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Windows Installer when the Windows Installer fails to properly sanitize input leading to an insecure library loading behavior.A locally authenticated attacker could run arbitrary code with elevated system privileges, aka 'Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-0779, CVE-2020-0814, CVE-2020-0842, CVE-2020-0843.

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