CVE-2020-16853

<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the OneDrive for Windows Desktop application improperly handles symbolic links. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could overwrite a targeted file with an elevated status.</p> <p>To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted application that could exploit the vulnerability and delete a targeted file with an elevated status.</p> <p>The update addresses this vulnerability by correcting where the OneDrive updater performs file writes while running with elevation.</p>

• CWE-59

• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-16853Patch, Vendor Advisory
• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-16853Patch, Vendor Advisory

Published

Sep 11, 2020

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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