Security Advisory

CVE-2020-16995

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2020-10-16 22:18:11
Last updated 2024-08-04 13:45:34
Assigner microsoft
State PUBLISHED

Description

<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Network Watcher Agent virtual machine extension for Linux. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute code with elevated privileges.</p> <p>To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have to be present as a user on the affected virtual machine.</p> <p>The security update addresses this vulnerability by correcting how Network Watcher Agent virtual machine extension for Linux executes with elevated privileges.</p>