Cybersecurity Alerts

Microsoft Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows BITS is vulnerable to to a privilege elevation vulnerability if it improperly handles symbolic links. An actor can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with system-level privileges.

Required Action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Weakness Classification

CWE-269

CWE-59

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-0787