CVE-2020-0899
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Microsoft Visual Studio updater service improperly handles file permissions, aka…
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.81%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 43% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Microsoft Visual Studio updater service improperly handles file permissions, aka 'Microsoft Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.81% · top 43% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5
- affected unspecified
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.1 - 15.8)
- affected unspecified
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2019
- affected 16.0
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 (includes 16.0 - 16.3)
- affected unspecified
References
1
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-0899 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2020-2367 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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