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CVE-2020-1532

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-1532 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Windows InstallService affecting Microsoft Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016. An attacker with local execution on the victim system could exploit this by running a specially crafted application to gain elevated privileges. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), indicating a low attack complexity and requiring low privileges, with high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), it has received some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1903CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1903:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1909CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1909:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2004CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:2004:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1903CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2016:1903:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1909CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2016:1909:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.93%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
57.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0093 is in the 91st 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 (13)

microsoftpatch availablevia nvd_reference
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1909 for 32-bit Systems
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1909 for x64-based Systems
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1909 for ARM64-based Systems
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server, version 1909 (Server Core installation)
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1903 for 32-bit Systems
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1903 for x64-based Systems
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1903 for ARM64-based Systems
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server, version 1903 (Server Core installation)
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 2004 for 32-bit Systems
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 2004 for ARM64-based Systems
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 2004 for x64-based Systems
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server, version 2004 (Server Core installation)
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2020-Sep/CVE-2020-1532Important

Windows InstallService Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Sep 8, 2020

References

portal.msrc.microsoft.com / en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-1532
PatchVendor Advisory