CVE-2020-0989: Microsoft Windows 10

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

<p>An information disclosure vulnerability exists when Windows Mobile Device Management (MDM) Diagnostics improperly handles junctions. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could bypass access restrictions to read files.</p> <p>To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted application that could exploit the vulnerability and access files.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting the how Windows MDM Diagnostics handles files.</p>

Affected products

  • Microsoft Windows 10: version 1709 only; version 1803 only; version 1809 only; version 1903 only; version 1909 only; version 2004 only
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2016: version 1903 only; version 1909 only; version 2004 only
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2019: affected versions not specified

Published 2020-09-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.