Microsoft advisory for CVE-2020-0835 — Windows Defender Antimalware Platform
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products1
- Windows Defender Antimalware Platform
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2020-0835
- EchelonGraph score
- 7.8 HIGH
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is referenced (a reference tagged "Patch", often a source commit), but no release containing it is confirmed — find the release that contains it; until it is applied, mitigate (WAF / firewall / segmentation).
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows Defender antimalware platform improperly handles hard links, aka 'Windows Defender Antimalware Platform Hard Link Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.
Published by Microsoft Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2020-0835, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).