An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Microsoft Windows when the Windows kernel fails to properly handle parsing of certain symbolic links, aka 'Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

Related CVEs

CVE-2020-0799

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-vcfx-p29c-383r

Published

May 24, 2022 5:10 PM

Last Modified

May 24, 2022 5:10 PM

CVSS Score

7.5 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: September 13, 2025 6:30 AM

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