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CVE record · CVE-2020-0899

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Microsoft Visual Studio updater service improperly handles file permissions, aka 'Microsoft Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0081 · 57th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: microsoft) at 15 Apr 2020, 15:12 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5
  • affected unspecified
Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.1 - 15.8)
  • affected unspecified
Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2019
  • affected 16.0
Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 (includes 16.0 - 16.3)
  • affected unspecified
Identifiers
CVE-2020-0899
CNA
microsoft
Tags
Published
15 Apr 2020
Updated
4 Aug 2024

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0081, the 57th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 15 Apr 2020. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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