CVE-2020-1163 EPSS 0.9%
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows Defender that leads arbitrary file deletion on the system.To…
Microsoft · Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection
Official description · CVE.org
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.
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11.8 / 100
- Exploited
- Not confirmed
- Reports
- 0
- Tactics
- 1/15
How an attack unfolds
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Disclosed on 9 Jun 2020. No public exploit code or confirmed exploitation is recorded.
MITRE ATT&CKA public catalogue of the techniques attackers use, maintained by MITRE. Patchfirst uses it to describe what attackers do with a vulnerability. techniques
1 TechniqueOne specific attacker behaviour in MITRE ATT&CK, such as T1190 “Exploit Public-Facing Application”. IDs with a dot, like T1059.004, are sub-techniques., grouped by TacticThe attacker’s goal at a stage of an attack in MITRE ATT&CK, such as Initial Access or Persistence. Each technique belongs to one or more tactics. in kill-chain order 1ImpactTA0040
Data Destruction T1485
MITRE CTID mapping of the CVE · primary impact
Detection
0 rules for this CVE · 20 general rules for its techniquesRules for this CVE
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General rules for this CVE’s techniques
These detect the technique in general, not this specific vulnerability.
Data DestructionT148520 general rules
- Fsutil Suspicious Invocationhighstable
- Potential BlackByte Ransomware Activityhightest
- Potential File Overwrite Via Sysinternals SDeletehightest
- Renamed Sysinternals Sdelete Executionhightest
- AWS EFS Fileshare Mount Modified or Deletedmediumtest
- Azure Device or Configuration Modified or Deletedmediumtest
- Azure Kubernetes Network Policy Changemediumtest
- Azure Kubernetes RoleBinding/ClusterRoleBinding Modified and Deletedmediumtest
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