CVE-2020-0793

HIGH 7.8CVE-2020-0793 · Published 12/03/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-0793 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting visual studio 2015 (microsoft), visual studio 2017 (microsoft), visual studio 2019 (microsoft).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.79%, higher than 56.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
visual studio 2015 microsoft	`= update_3`	No fix yet
visual studio 2017 microsoft	`≥ 15.1, ≤ 15.9`	No fix yet
visual studio 2019 microsoft	`≥ 16.0, ≤ 16.4`	No fix yet

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service improperly handles file operations, aka 'Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

References

portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-0793 · Patch

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