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CVE-2020-16992

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-16992 is an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability affecting Microsoft Azure Sphere. With a CVSS score of 8.2 (HIGH), this vulnerability allows a high-privileged local attacker to achieve significant impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there public exploit modules available in Metasploit or Nuclei, though it received limited community discussion and media coverage at the time of its disclosure.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 20.09CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:azure_sphere:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
0.8
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
69.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0140 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 360 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 (2)

microsoftpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Azure Sphere

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2020-Nov/CVE-2020-16992Important

Azure Sphere Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Nov 10, 2020

References

portal.msrc.microsoft.com / en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-16992
PatchVendor Advisory
talosintelligence.com / vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1133
ExploitThird Party Advisory