Microsoft Windows CVE-2020-0739 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the dssvc.dll handles file creation allowing for a file overwrite or creation in a secured location. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute code with elevated permissions. To exploit the vulnerability, a locally authenticated attacker could run a specially crafted application. The security update addresses the vulnerability by ensuring the dssvc.dll properly handles this type of functionality.

Affected Applications

Windows Server version 1903 (Server Core installation)
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server version 1803 (Server Core Installation)
Windows 10
Windows Server version 1909 (Server Core installation)
Windows Server 2019

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