Vulnerability Details CVE-2020-16995
<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Network Watcher Agent virtual machine extension for Linux. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute code with elevated privileges.</p>
<p>To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have to be present as a user on the affected virtual machine.</p>
<p>The security update addresses this vulnerability by correcting how Network Watcher Agent virtual machine extension for Linux executes with elevated privileges.</p>
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.007
EPSS Ranking 69.6%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.8
CVSS v2 Score 7.2
References
Products affected by CVE-2020-16995
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cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:network_watcher_agent:-