CVE-2020-1272

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CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

EPSS

<1%p54

Published

Jun 9, 2020 (Jun 9, 2020)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

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-2020-1277, CVE-2020-1302, CVE-2020-1312.

Vendors: microsoft
Products: windows 10, windows 7, windows 8.1, windows rt 8.1, windows server 2008, windows server 2012, windows server 2016, windows server 2019
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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