CVE-2020-0787

CRITICALNVD 7.89.0
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.

Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-01-28), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. It is also listed on ENISA's EU Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue (Source: ENISA EUVD). NVD baseline CVSS 7.8 retained for reference. The 9.0 is the floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: this CVE's impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 7.8 HIGH under GitHub Security Advisory CVSS. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, EPSS, ENISA's EU Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild

Also known asEUVD-2020-2274 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-2ffp-p9mj-92cf (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low or medium mission impact
CISA-KEV: ExploitedENISA EU KEV: Listed (Source: ENISA EUVD)EPSS PROB: 43%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: Metasploit · other public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) improperly handles symbolic links, aka 'Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
75
EG Risk 75/100

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)
Severity78% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation100% × 40%
Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (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 at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.
EPSS PROB
43%
EPSS %ILE
98th
KEV
⚠ Exploited

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

The EG score (9.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.0 is the CISA KEV floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: its impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 7.8 HIGH.

EG Severity
7.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
43% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-03). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
CISA KEV and ENISA EU KEV (Source: ENISA EUVD) and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Attend at medium mission impactTrack at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

ENISA EU KEV: listed January 23, 2025, reported by cnw.

Source: ENISA EUVD (EU Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue), reproduced with acknowledgement. How a listing moves the EG score

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (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)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). 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

CISA required action“Apply updates per vendor instructions.”

Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-0787

Published

March 12, 2020

Last Modified

August 12, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Nov 2, 2026
⚠️ Actively exploited (CISA KEV, CISA Vulnrichment). Patch available. Sources: microsoft, cisa.
CISA🔴 Active Exploitation

Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA

Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA. Listed in CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-0787
Microsoft

Security Update Guide - Microsoft Security Response Center

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-0787

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2020-0787(1)

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

Weakness Classification(2)

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

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 28× in last 7d / 176× 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 100 of 1,779 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. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 1,679 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-04 00:36 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-11-04 00:36 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-11-04 00:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2ffp-p9mj-92cf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  4. 2026-11-03 16:36 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 43% · 98th percentile
  5. 2026-11-03 01:55 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-11-03 01:55 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-11-03 01:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2ffp-p9mj-92cf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  8. 2026-11-02 03:14 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-11-02 03:14 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-11-02 03:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2ffp-p9mj-92cf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  11. 2026-11-01 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 43% · 98th percentile
  12. 2026-11-01 04:34 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-11-01 04:34 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-11-01 04:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2ffp-p9mj-92cf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  15. 2026-10-31 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 43% · 98th percentile
  16. 2026-10-31 05:53 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-31 05:53 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-10-31 05:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2ffp-p9mj-92cf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  19. 2026-10-30 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 43% · 98th percentile
  20. 2026-10-30 07:12 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-30 07:12 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-10-30 07:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2ffp-p9mj-92cf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  23. 2026-10-29 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 43% · 98th percentile
  24. 2026-10-29 08:32 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-29 08:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2ffp-p9mj-92cf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  1. 2026-10-28 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 43% · 98th percentile
  2. 2026-10-28 09:49 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-28 09:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2ffp-p9mj-92cf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  4. 2026-10-27 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 43% · 98th percentile
  5. 2026-10-27 11:08 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-27 11:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2ffp-p9mj-92cf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  7. 2026-10-26 12:28 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-26 12:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2ffp-p9mj-92cf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  9. 2026-10-25 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 43% · 98th percentile
  10. 2026-10-25 13:47 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-25 13:47 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-25 13:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2ffp-p9mj-92cf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  13. 2026-10-25 13:46 UTCENISA EU KEV listingEUVD-2020-2274 · listed January 23, 2025 · reported by cnw · Source: ENISA EUVD
  14. 2026-10-25 10:53 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-25 10:53 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-25 10:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2ffp-p9mj-92cf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  17. 2026-10-24 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 43% · 98th percentile
  18. 2026-10-24 12:12 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-24 12:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2ffp-p9mj-92cf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  20. 2026-10-23 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 43% · 98th percentile
  21. 2026-10-23 13:31 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-23 13:31 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-10-23 13:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2ffp-p9mj-92cf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  24. 2026-10-22 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 43% · 98th percentile
  25. 2026-10-22 14:51 UTCEG score recompute
  26. 2026-10-22 14:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2ffp-p9mj-92cf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  27. 2026-10-21 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 43% · 98th percentile
  28. 2026-10-21 16:08 UTCVendor advisory
  29. 2026-10-21 16:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2ffp-p9mj-92cf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  30. 2026-10-20 17:22 UTCEG score recompute
  31. 2026-10-20 17:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2ffp-p9mj-92cf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  32. 2026-10-20 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 43% · 98th percentile
  33. 2026-10-19 18:41 UTCEG score recompute
  34. 2026-10-19 18:41 UTCVendor advisory
  35. 2026-10-19 18:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2ffp-p9mj-92cf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  36. 2026-10-19 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 43% · 98th percentile
  37. 2026-10-18 19:59 UTCEG score recompute
  38. 2026-10-18 19:59 UTCVendor advisory
  39. 2026-10-18 19:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2ffp-p9mj-92cf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  40. 2026-10-18 09:38 UTCEG score recompute
  41. 2026-10-17 21:16 UTCEG score recompute
  42. 2026-10-17 21:16 UTCVendor advisory
  43. 2026-10-17 21:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2ffp-p9mj-92cf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  44. 2026-10-17 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 43% · 98th percentile
  45. 2026-10-16 22:36 UTCEG score recompute
  46. 2026-10-16 22:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2ffp-p9mj-92cf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  47. 2026-10-16 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 43% · 98th percentile
  48. 2026-10-15 23:54 UTCEG score recompute
  49. 2026-10-15 23:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2ffp-p9mj-92cf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  50. 2026-10-15 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 43% · 98th percentile
  51. 2026-10-15 01:12 UTCEG score recompute
  52. 2026-10-15 01:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2ffp-p9mj-92cf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  53. 2026-10-14 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 43% · 98th percentile
  54. 2026-10-14 02:32 UTCEG score recompute
  55. 2026-10-14 02:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2ffp-p9mj-92cf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  56. 2026-10-13 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 43% · 98th percentile
  57. 2026-10-13 03:50 UTCVendor advisory
  58. 2026-10-13 03:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2ffp-p9mj-92cf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  59. 2026-10-12 19:49 UTCEG score recompute
  60. 2026-10-12 05:07 UTCVendor advisory
  61. 2026-10-12 05:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2ffp-p9mj-92cf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  62. 2026-10-12 00:54 UTCVendor advisory
  63. 2026-10-12 00:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2ffp-p9mj-92cf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  64. 2026-10-11 20:41 UTCEG score recompute
  65. 2026-10-11 20:41 UTCVendor advisory
  66. 2026-10-11 20:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2ffp-p9mj-92cf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  67. 2026-10-11 16:25 UTCEG score recompute
  68. 2026-10-11 16:25 UTCVendor advisory
  69. 2026-10-11 16:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2ffp-p9mj-92cf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  70. 2026-10-11 13:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 43% · 98th percentile
  71. 2026-10-11 12:12 UTCEG score recompute
  72. 2026-10-11 12:12 UTCVendor advisory
  73. 2026-10-11 12:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2ffp-p9mj-92cf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  74. 2026-10-11 07:57 UTCVendor advisory
  75. 2026-10-11 07:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2ffp-p9mj-92cf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8

Publicly available exploits

(3 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 2 GitHub PoCs). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • Metasploitexploit/windows/local/cve_2020_0787_bits_arbitrary_file_move✓ verified
    Published Jun 11, 2020

    Background Intelligent Transfer Service Arbitrary File Move Privilege Elevation Vulnerability

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCyanghaoi/CVE-2020-0787
    Published Nov 16, 2021

    CVE-2020-0787的简单回显

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCcbwang505/CVE-2020-0787-EXP-ALL-WINDOWS-VERSION
    Published Jun 16, 2020

    Support ALL Windows Version

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2020-0787?
CVE-2020-0787 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on March 12, 2020. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) improperly handles symbolic links, aka 'Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.
When was the CVE record for CVE-2020-0787 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2020-0787 was published on March 12, 2020. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of August 12, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2020-0787 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2020-0787 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on January 28, 2022, affecting Microsoft Windows. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. A fix is available. Apply it. ENISA's EU Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue lists CVE-2020-0787 (added January 23, 2025, reported by cnw): ENISA records its exploitation in the wild. Source: ENISA EUVD (EU Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue), reproduced with acknowledgement.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2020-0787?
CVE-2020-0787 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + ENISA's EU KEV (Source: ENISA EUVD) + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.0 (CRITICAL).
Which products are affected by CVE-2020-0787?
CVE-2020-0787 affects Microsoft Windows.
How do I remediate CVE-2020-0787?
A fix for CVE-2020-0787 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2020-0787 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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