CVE-2020-16853 (GCVE-0-2020-16853)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-09-11 17:08
Modified
2024-08-04 13:45
Severity ?
7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CWE
  • Denial of Service
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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Impacted products
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Microsoft OneDrive for Windows Version: 0   < publication
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