CVE-2020-0984 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability affecting Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU) for Mac, where the application fails to properly validate updates before execution. This allows a local attacker, with low privileges, to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability without user interaction. While the CVSS score is 7.8 (HIGH), there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or inclusion in CISA's KEV catalog. Despite this, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:autoupdate:-:*:*:*:*:macos:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.