CVE-2020-1467

CRITICALNVD 10.010.0
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 10.0 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2022-05-24. NVD baseline CVSS 10.0; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 4 sources updated this week

Also known asEUVD-2020-12342 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-8495-5w8h-83c5 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

10.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 3.5%CVSS: 10.0Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows improperly handles hard links. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could overwrite a targeted file leading to an elevated status. 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. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Windows handles hard links.

CVSS v3
10.0
EG Score
10.0CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
46
EG Risk 46/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity100% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 10.0 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation3.5% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's BOD 26-04 default: no one has published Automatable for this CVE, and CISA treats it as “no” for a CVE not in KEV.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (no CISA value, KEV listing or exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
3.5%
EPSS %ILE
89th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (10.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 10.0 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
10.0 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
3.5% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (no CISA value, KEV listing or exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

August 17, 2020

Last Modified

February 23, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Nov 1, 2026
Patch available. Sources: microsoft.
Microsoft

Security Update Guide - Microsoft Security Response Center

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-1467

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2020-1467(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 26× in last 7d / 87× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 99 of 239 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 1 repeat row among the latest 100 is merged into the row it repeats. The 140 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-02 16:36 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.5% · 89th percentile
  2. 2026-11-02 12:20 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-11-02 12:20 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-11-02 12:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8495-5w8h-83c5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  5. 2026-11-01 13:30 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-11-01 13:30 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-11-01 13:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8495-5w8h-83c5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  8. 2026-10-31 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.5% · 89th percentile
  9. 2026-10-31 14:39 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-31 14:39 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-31 14:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8495-5w8h-83c5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  12. 2026-10-30 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.5% · 89th percentile
  13. 2026-10-30 15:48 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-30 15:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8495-5w8h-83c5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  15. 2026-10-29 16:58 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-29 16:58 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-29 16:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8495-5w8h-83c5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  18. 2026-10-29 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.5% · 89th percentile
  19. 2026-10-28 18:07 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-28 18:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8495-5w8h-83c5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  21. 2026-10-28 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.5% · 89th percentile
  22. 2026-10-27 19:10 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-27 19:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8495-5w8h-83c5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  24. 2026-10-27 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.5% · 89th percentile
  25. 2026-10-26 20:19 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-10-26 20:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8495-5w8h-83c5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  2. 2026-10-26 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.5% · 89th percentile
  3. 2026-10-25 19:38 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-10-25 19:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8495-5w8h-83c5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  5. 2026-10-25 18:50 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-25 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.5% · 89th percentile
  7. 2026-10-24 20:43 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-24 20:43 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-10-24 20:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8495-5w8h-83c5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  10. 2026-10-24 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.5% · 89th percentile
  11. 2026-10-23 21:53 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-23 21:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8495-5w8h-83c5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  13. 2026-10-23 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.5% · 89th percentile
  14. 2026-10-22 23:01 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-22 23:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8495-5w8h-83c5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  16. 2026-10-22 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.5% · 89th percentile
  17. 2026-10-22 00:11 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-22 00:11 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-22 00:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8495-5w8h-83c5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  20. 2026-10-21 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.5% · 89th percentile
  21. 2026-10-21 01:15 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-21 01:15 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-10-21 01:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8495-5w8h-83c5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  24. 2026-10-20 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.5% · 89th percentile
  25. 2026-10-20 02:24 UTCEG score recompute
  26. 2026-10-20 02:24 UTCVendor advisory
  27. 2026-10-20 02:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8495-5w8h-83c5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  28. 2026-10-19 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.5% · 89th percentile
  29. 2026-10-19 01:46 UTCEG score recompute
  30. 2026-10-19 01:46 UTCVendor advisory
  31. 2026-10-19 01:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8495-5w8h-83c5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  32. 2026-10-18 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.5% · 89th percentile
  33. 2026-10-18 09:34 UTCEG score recompute
  34. 2026-10-18 02:53 UTCEG score recompute
  35. 2026-10-18 02:53 UTCVendor advisory
  36. 2026-10-18 02:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8495-5w8h-83c5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  37. 2026-10-17 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.5% · 89th percentile
  38. 2026-10-17 04:00 UTCEG score recompute
  39. 2026-10-17 03:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8495-5w8h-83c5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  40. 2026-10-16 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.5% · 89th percentile
  41. 2026-10-16 05:07 UTCEG score recompute
  42. 2026-10-16 05:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8495-5w8h-83c5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  43. 2026-10-15 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.5% · 89th percentile
  44. 2026-10-15 03:35 UTCEG score recompute
  45. 2026-10-15 03:35 UTCVendor advisory
  46. 2026-10-15 03:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8495-5w8h-83c5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  47. 2026-10-14 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.5% · 89th percentile
  48. 2026-10-13 23:41 UTCEG score recompute
  49. 2026-10-13 23:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8495-5w8h-83c5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  50. 2026-10-13 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.5% · 89th percentile
  51. 2026-10-12 19:46 UTCVendor advisory
  52. 2026-10-12 19:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8495-5w8h-83c5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  53. 2026-10-12 19:45 UTCEG score recompute
  54. 2026-10-12 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.5% · 89th percentile
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2020-1467?
CVE-2020-1467 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 17, 2020. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows improperly handles hard links. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could overwrite a targeted file leading to an elevated status. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system. An…
When was CVE-2020-1467 made public?
CVE-2020-1467 was made public on August 11, 2020: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Microsoft Corporation, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on August 17, 2020. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of February 23, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2020-1467 actively exploited?
CVE-2020-1467 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (89th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2020-1467?
CVE-2020-1467 has a CVSS v3 base score of 10.0 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2020-1467?
A fix for CVE-2020-1467 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2020-1467 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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