An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows Defender that leads arbitrary file deletion on the system.To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system, aka 'Microsoft Windows Defender Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-1170.

Related CVEs

CVE-2020-1163

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-r3xg-94cc-pwx3

Published

May 24, 2022 5:19 PM

Last Modified

May 24, 2022 5:19 PM

CVSS Score

7.5 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: July 6, 2025 6:30 AM

Data from GitHub Advisory Database. This information is provided for research and educational purposes.