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CVE-2020-0787

Microsoft Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability

Exploited in the wild

This vulnerability is on a Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue, added 2022-01-28. Federal due date: 2022-07-28.

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Impact

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) improperly handles symbolic links, aka 'Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
MicrosoftWindows 10 1507
All versions
MicrosoftWindows 10 1607
All versions
MicrosoftWindows 10 1709
All versions
MicrosoftWindows 10 1803
All versions
MicrosoftWindows 10 1809
All versions
MicrosoftWindows 10 1903
All versions
MicrosoftWindows 10 1909
All versions
MicrosoftWindows 7
All versions
MicrosoftWindows 8.1
All versions
MicrosoftWindows Rt 8.1
All versions
MicrosoftWindows Server 1803
All versions
MicrosoftWindows Server 1903
All versions

Weakness classification

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