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CVE-2020-0837

MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5
5CVSS MEDIUM

Summary

<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) improperly handles multi-factor authentication requests. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could bypass some, but not all, of the authentication factors.</p> <p>To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker could send a specially crafted authentication request.</p> <p>This security update corrects how ADFS handles multi-factor authentication requests.</p>

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityHigh
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactLow
Integrity impactLow
Availability impactLow
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-0837 ↗