An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the OneDrive for Windows Desktop application improperly handles symb

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Shane1145
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An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the OneDrive for Windows Desktop application improperly handles symb

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An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the OneDrive for Windows Desktop application improperly handles symbolic links. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could overwrite a targeted file with 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 delete a targeted file with an elevated status.

The update addresses this vulnerability by correcting where the OneDrive updater performs file writes while running with elevation.

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide ... 2020-16851
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