Sep 2020: OneDrive for Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2020-16851 Published on September 11, 2020
OneDrive for Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the OneDrive for Windows Desktop application improperly handles symbolic links. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could overwrite a targeted file with an elevated status.</p>
<p>To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted application that could exploit the vulnerability and delete a targeted file with an elevated status.</p>
<p>The update addresses this vulnerability by correcting where the OneDrive updater performs file writes while running with elevation.</p>
Products Associated with CVE-2020-16851
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Affected Versions
Microsoft OneDrive for Windows:- Before publication is affected.
Exploit Probability
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