CVE-2020-16895: Microsoft Windows 10

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows Error Reporting manager improperly handles a process crash. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could delete a targeted file leading to an elevated status.</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 take control of an affected system.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Windows Error Reporting manager handles process crashes.</p>

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 10: 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 2020-10-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.