CVE-2020-0765 is an information disclosure vulnerability in Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) application, stemming from improper XML parsing that allows for external entity references. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) requires user interaction and local access, but could lead to high confidentiality impact. While not actively exploited (no KEV entry) and lacking public exploit code, it garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, particularly regarding RDCMan's deprecation and subsequent revival after patching.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:remote_desktop_connection_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.