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CVE-2020-0844

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-0844 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability affecting the Connected User Experiences and Telemetry Service in various versions of Microsoft Windows and Windows Server. An attacker could exploit this by improperly handling file operations within the service. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), indicating that a local attacker with low privileges could achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts without user interaction. While there is no known active exploitation (KEV) or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), it has received some community discussion and media coverage, suggesting awareness within the cybersecurity community.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1607CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1607:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1709CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1709:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1803CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1803:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1809CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1809:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.76%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
51.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0076 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 17,070 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (36)

microsoftpatch availablevia nvd_reference
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1803 for 32-bit Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1803 for x64-based Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server, version 1803 (Server Core Installation)
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1803 for ARM64-based Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1809 for 32-bit Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1809 for x64-based Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1809 for ARM64-based Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server 2019
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1909 for 32-bit Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1909 for x64-based Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1909 for ARM64-based Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server, version 1909 (Server Core installation)
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1903 for 32-bit Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1903 for x64-based Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1903 for ARM64-based Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server, version 1903 (Server Core installation)
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1709 for 32-bit Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1709 for x64-based Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1709 for ARM64-based Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 for 32-bit Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 for x64-based Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1607 for 32-bit Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server 2016
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation)
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 7 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 1
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 7 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1 (Server Core installation)
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 8.1 for 32-bit systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 8.1 for x64-based systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows RT 8.1
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server 2012 R2
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Core installation)
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Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2020-Mar/CVE-2020-0844Important

Connected User Experiences and Telemetry Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Mar 10, 2020

References

portal.msrc.microsoft.com / en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-0844
PatchVendor Advisory