CVE-2020-0787High· 7.8▾ Abyssal⚠ Exploited in the wildPoC availableAn 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'.
▾ Abyssal zone — Critical with a public exploit or in-the-wild use
impact 42.9 · likelihood 8.5 · exploitation 25 · ransomware 5
A public proof-of-concept already exists for this vulnerability — see Exploit availability below.
Public exploit / PoC code seen in 2 sources. Availability, not in-the-wild use.
Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Aug 12.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via NVD
Federal remediation due Jul 28, 2022
Last analysed / modified upstream
43%
2 GitHub repos · Metasploit ×1
Added to the CISA catalog on Jan 28, 2022. Federal remediation due Jul 28, 2022. View catalog ↗
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'.
windows_10_1507windows_10_1607windows_10_1709windows_10_1803windows_10_1809windows_10_1903windows_10_1909windows_7windows_8.1windows_rt_8.1windows_server_1803windows_server_1903windows_server_1909windows_server_2008windows_server_2008 = r2windows_server_2012windows_server_2012 = r2windows_server_2016windows_server_2019Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.
Field changes observed since this record was first indexed.
Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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