CVE-2020-16995: Microsoft Network Watcher Agent

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

<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>

Affected products

• Microsoft Network Watcher Agent: affected versions not specified

Published 2020-10-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.