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CVE-2020-16995

Estado: ModificadaAlta (7.8)—

<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Network Watcher Agent virtual machine extension for Linux. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute code with elevated privileges.</p> <p>To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have to be present as a user on the affected virtual machine.</p> <p>The security update addresses this vulnerability by correcting how Network Watcher Agent virtual machine extension for Linux executes with elevated privileges.</p>

CVSS

Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)

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Tecnologías afectadas (1)

Microsoft — Network Watcher Agent

CWE

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