CVE-2020-1170

highpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.016 · 76 %ileEURUUS
grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled
Exploitable?
—
no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
1.61% (76th) EPSS
CVSS 7.2 · high
Is it mine?
56 products
Check your exposure
Who says so?
3 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows Defender that leads arbitrary file deletion on the system.To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system, aka 'Microsoft Windows Defender Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-1163.

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cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.8
010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.07.2highAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 10
v3.17.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 5.9
v3.17.8highAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU
v3.17.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-732USprimaryCWE-269US
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affected products (56)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

showing 20 of 56
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also known as (4)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

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sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvdenisa_euvdfstec_bduNVDCVE.orgMITRE
published 2020-06-09modified 2026-06-17
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references (10)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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