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CVE-2020-1292

HIGH severity · CVSS 7.8
7.8CVSS HIGH

Summary

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in OpenSSH for Windows when it does not properly restrict access to configuration settings, aka 'OpenSSH for Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%

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

Affected products we track (2)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-1292 ↗