Security Advisory

CVE-2020-16852

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2020-09-11 17:08:35
Last updated 2024-08-04 13:45:33
Assigner microsoft
State PUBLISHED

Description

<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>