Original release date: September 14, 2020
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is aware of publicly available exploit code for CVE-2020-1472, an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Microsoft’s Netlogon. Although Microsoft provided patches for CVE-2020-1472 in August 2020, unpatched systems will be an attractive target for malicious actors. Attackers could exploit this vulnerability to obtain domain administrator access.
CISA encourages users and administrators to review Microsoft’s August Security Advisory for CVE-2020-1472 and Article for more information and apply the necessary updates.
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