CVE-2020-1163: Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows Defender that leads arbitrary file deletion on the system.To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system, aka 'Microsoft Windows Defender Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-1170.

Affected products

• Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010: affected versions not specified
• Microsoft Security Essentials: affected versions not specified
• Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection: version 2012 only
• Microsoft Windows Defender: affected versions not specified

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