CVE-2020-0837

MediumCVSS 5.0/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) improperly handles multi-factor authentication requests. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could bypass some, but not all, of the authentication factors.</p> <p>To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker could send a specially crafted authentication request.</p> <p>This security update corrects how ADFS handles multi-factor authentication requests.</p>

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 5.0/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Sep 11, 2020
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2020-0837: Medium severity, CVSS 5.0 | Vulnix