CVE-2020-24356: Cloudflare Cloudflared

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

`cloudflared` versions prior to 2020.8.1 contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability on Windows systems. When run on a Windows system, `cloudflared` searches for configuration files which could be abused by a malicious entity to execute commands as a privileged user. Version 2020.8.1 fixes this issue.

Affected products

• Cloudflare Cloudflared: before 2020.8.1 (fixed in 2020.8.1)

Published 2020-10-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.