7.1
CVSSv3

CVE-2020-16851

Published: 11/09/2020 Updated: 31/12/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 3.6 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.1 | Impact Score: 5.2 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 320
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the OneDrive for Windows Desktop application improperly handles symbolic links. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could overwrite a targeted file with an elevated status.</p> <p>To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted application that could exploit the vulnerability and delete a targeted file with an elevated status.</p> <p>The update addresses this vulnerability by correcting where the OneDrive updater performs file writes while running with elevation.</p>

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