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CVE-2020-0787
CWE-59
Critical
91.2
RPSRPS range: 0–105; KEV-listed vulnerabilities can receive an exploitation amplifier.
Description
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) improperly handles symbolic links, aka 'Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.
Source: NVD
Signals
- CVSS
- 7.8
- High · v3.1
- EPSS
- 42.52%
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (FIRST)
- CISA KEV
- In CISA KEV since Jan 2022
- Fix commit
- No known fix commit
- Sources: MoreFixes, FreshFixes
- Weakness
- CWE-59
- Published
- 12 Mar 2020
- Last modified 12 Aug 2026
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Data as of 7 Oct 2026, 05:16 UK time