CVE-2020-1313An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Update Orchestrator Service improperly handles file operations, aka…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 39.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Update Orchestrator Service improperly handles file operations, aka 'Windows Update Orchestrator Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module for it.
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Metasploit modules1 module
- Windows Update Orchestrator unchecked ScheduleWork call (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/local/cve_2020_1313_system_orchestratorRank excellentdisclosed 4 Nov 2019
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 7 months later
· 7 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 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 39.2% · top 1.4% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 1909 for 32-bit Systems
- affected unspecified
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 1909 for x64-based Systems
- affected unspecified
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 1909 for ARM64-based Systems
- affected unspecified
Microsoft · Windows Server, version 1909 (Server Core installation)
- affected unspecified
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 1903 for 32-bit Systems
- affected unspecified
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 1903 for x64-based Systems
- affected unspecified
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 1903 for ARM64-based Systems
- affected unspecified
Microsoft · Windows Server, version 1903 (Server Core installation)
- affected unspecified
Microsoft · Windows Server, version 2004 (Server Core installation)
- affected unspecified
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 2004 for 32-bit Systems
- affected unspecified
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 2004 for ARM64-based Systems
- affected unspecified
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 2004 for x64-based Systems
- affected unspecified
References
References2
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-2020-12191 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2020-1313)Record last updated .