CVE-2020-16993 is an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability affecting Microsoft Azure Sphere, allowing an attacker to gain elevated privileges. With a CVSS score of 6.8 (Medium), this vulnerability requires physical access (AV:P) but has low attack complexity (AC:L), potentially leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor is public exploit code available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. Despite its inclusion in Microsoft's November 2020 Patch Tuesday, community discussion and media coverage remain low.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 20.08CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:azure_sphere:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
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