CVE-2020-1302: Microsoft Windows 10

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows Installer because of the way Windows Installer handles certain filesystem operations.To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would require unprivileged execution on the victim system, aka 'Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-1272, CVE-2020-1277, CVE-2020-1312.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 10: affected versions not specified; version 1607 only; version 1709 only; version 1803 only; version 1809 only; version 1903 only; …
• Microsoft Windows 7: affected versions not specified
• Microsoft Windows 8.1: affected versions not specified
• Microsoft Windows Rt 8.1: affected versions not specified
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008: affected versions not specified; version r2 only
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012: affected versions not specified; version r2 only
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016: affected versions not specified; version 1803 only; version 1903 only; version 1909 only; version 2004 only
• Microsoft Windows Server 2019: affected versions not specified

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