CVE-2020-0899

At a glance

Severity: Not available
EPSS: EPSS 0.81 % · percentile 57 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2020-04-15
Updated: 2024-08-04
Assigner: microsoft
NVD status: Modified

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Microsoft Visual Studio updater service improperly handles file permissions, aka 'Microsoft Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0	LOW 3.6	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2020-2367
GCVE · GCVE-0-2020-0899

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2020-AVI-225 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Microsoft · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2017:15.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2019:16.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2019:16.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2019:16.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5	affected unspecified
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.1 - 15.8)	affected unspecified
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2019	affected 16.0
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 (includes 16.0 - 16.3)	affected unspecified

References

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-0899

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