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CVE-2020-1455

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-1455 is a denial of service vulnerability affecting Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) due to improper file handling. An attacker with local execution privileges on the victim system could exploit this to trigger a denial of service. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium) with a local attack vector and low complexity, leading to high availability impact but no confidentiality or integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or inclusion in CISA's KEV catalog. Community discussion and media coverage are minimal, with only one article from BleepingComputer.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 18.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:sql_server_management_studio:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.23%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
65.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0123 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 15,938 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

microsoftpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: SQL Server Management Studio 18.6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2020-Aug/CVE-2020-1455Important

Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability

Aug 11, 2020

References

portal.msrc.microsoft.com / en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-1455
PatchVendor Advisory