CVE-2020-8959

HIGH 7.8CVE-2020-8959 · Published 19/02/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-8959 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting sandiskssddashboardsetup.exe (westerndigital), westerndigitalssddashboardsetup.exe (westerndigital).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.45%, higher than 38.7% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 3.0.2.0 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
sandiskssddashboardsetup.exe westerndigital	`< 3.0.2.0`	`3.0.2.0`
westerndigitalssddashboardsetup.exe westerndigital	`< 3.0.2.0`	`3.0.2.0`

Western Digital WesternDigitalSSDDashboardSetup.exe before 3.0.2.0 allows DLL Hijacking.

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