What is GHSA-xmmw-q4pv-3gc3?

GHSA-xmmw-q4pv-3gc3 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows Installer because of the way Windows...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-xmmw-q4pv-3gc3 cover?

GHSA-xmmw-q4pv-3gc3 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2020-1078. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-xmmw-q4pv-3gc3?

GHSA-xmmw-q4pv-3gc3 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-xmmw-q4pv-3gc3MediumCVSS 7.8

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows Installer because of the way Windows...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

May 24, 2022

Last Modified

August 19, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2020-1078 →

📋 Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows Installer because of the way Windows Installer handles certain filesystem operations.To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would require unprivileged execution on the victim system, aka 'Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

🔗 References (4)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1078
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-1078
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2020-1078
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xmmw-q4pv-3gc3