CVE-2020-1590: Connected User Experiences and Telemetry Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Overview

Severity
Medium (CVSS 5.5)
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Category
Elevation of Privilege
Exploit Status
Not Exploited
Exploitation Likelihood
Less Likely
Patch Tuesday
2020-Sep
Released
2020-09-08
EPSS Score
0.40% (percentile: 60.5%)

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Connected User Experiences and Telemetry Service improperly handles file operations. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain elevated privileges on the victim system. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim system, then run a specially crafted application. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how the Connected User Experiences and Telemetry Service handles file operations.

Affected Products (17)

Other

  • 11568
  • 11569
  • 11570
  • 11571
  • 11572
  • 11712
  • 11713
  • 11714
  • 11715
  • 11644
  • 11645
  • 11646
  • 11647
  • 11766
  • 11767
  • 11768
  • 11769

Security Updates (3)

Acknowledgments

Xuefeng Li (@lxf02942370), Zhiniang Peng (<a href="https://twitter.com/edwardzpeng">@edwardzpeng</a> &amp; Xuefeng Li (<a href="https://twitter.com/lxf02942370">@lxf02942370</a>, Jonas Lykkegård, Fangming Gu (@afang5472)

Revision History

  • 2020-09-08: Information published.