Microsoft Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability
High CVSS 7.8 Listed in CISA KEV
Summary
Microsoft Windows BITS is vulnerable to to a privilege elevation vulnerability if it improperly handles symbolic links. An actor can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with system-level privileges.
In-depth triage · Auto channel
No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).
Affected products
- Microsoft:Windows
- :
Sources
- CISA KEV DATABASE
- NVD DATABASE
Original Links
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-0787 advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog kev
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/158056/Background-Intelligent-Transfer-Service-Privilege-Escalation.html Exploit
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-0787 Patch
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-0787 US Government Resource
Timeline
- kev_added CISA KEV
- kev_ingest CISA KEV
- nvd_ingest NVD