CVE-2020-0799: 
vulnerability analysis and mitigation

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Microsoft Windows when the Windows kernel fails to properly handle parsing of certain symbolic links, identified as CVE-2020-0799. This vulnerability was disclosed in March 2020 and affects multiple versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems (NVD, MITRE).

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.8 (HIGH) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H. This indicates that the vulnerability requires local access, low attack complexity, low privileges, and no user interaction to exploit. The vulnerability is related to improper privilege management (CWE-269) in the Windows kernel (NVD).

If successfully exploited, this vulnerability could allow an attacker to gain elevated privileges on the affected system. The attacker could potentially gain the same user rights as the local user, with those having administrative rights being more severely impacted than users with restricted rights (NVD).

Microsoft has released security updates to address this vulnerability. Users should apply the appropriate security updates for their affected Windows systems (MITRE).