CVE-2020-0837
ADFS MFA Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
At a glance
- Severity
- MEDIUM 5.0
- EPSS
- EPSS 1.44 % · percentile 73 (2026-10-27)
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- microsoft
- NVD status
- Modified
Description
<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) improperly handles multi-factor authentication requests. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could bypass some, but not all, of the authentication factors.</p> <p>To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker could send a specially crafted authentication request.</p> <p>This security update corrects how ADFS handles multi-factor authentication requests.</p>
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM 5.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C | microsoft |
| CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM 5.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L | NVD · secure@microsoft.com (Secondary) |
| CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM 5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N | NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Secondary) |
| CVSS 2.0 | MEDIUM 4.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N | NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary) |
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2020-2309
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2020-0837
CERT-FR advisories
- CERTFR-2020-AVI-562 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Microsoft Windows · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
Affected configurations (NVD CPE)
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1607:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1607:*:*:*:*:*:x86:*cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1809:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1903:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1909:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:2004:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2016:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2016:1903:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2016:1909:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2016:2004:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2019:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Affected products
References
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| CERT-FR (ANSSI) | Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0 |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |