An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows Installer because of the way Windows Installer handles certain filesystem operations.To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would require unprivileged execution on the victim system, aka 'Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-0779, CVE-2020-0798, CVE-2020-0814, CVE-2020-0843.

Related CVEs

CVE-2020-0842

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-mp9q-9rqc-8x67

Published

May 24, 2022 5:11 PM

Last Modified

May 24, 2022 5:11 PM

CVSS Score

5.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: June 12, 2025 6:24 AM

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