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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2020-1472" idYear: 2020 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2020-08-17T19:13:05.000Z" updatedAt: "2025-10-21T23:35:37.656Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:17.081Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2020-1472" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2020-1472.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-1472" title: "Netlogon Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability" summary: "An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when an attacker establishes a vulnerable Netlogon secure channel connection to a domain controller, using the Netlogon Remote Protocol (MS-NRPC). An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run a specially crafted application on a device on the network.\nTo exploit the vulnerability, an unauthenticated attacker would be required to use MS-NRPC to connect to a domain controller to obtain domain administrator access.\nMicrosoft is addressing the vulnerability in a phased two-part rollout. These updates address the vulnerability by modifying how Netlogon handles the usage of Netlogon secure channels.\nFor guidelines on how to manage the changes required for this vulnerability and more information on the phased rollout, see How to manage the changes in Netlogon secure channel connections associated with CVE-2020-1472 (updated September 28, 2020).\nWhen the second phase of Windows updates become available in Q1 2021, customers will be notified via a revision to this security vulnerability. If you wish to be notified when these updates are released, we recommend that you register for the security notifications mailer to be alerted of content changes to this advisory. See Microsoft Technical Security Notifications." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"publication"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows Server version 2004","platforms":["x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"publication"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows Server 2019","platforms":["x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"publication"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)","platforms":["x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"publication"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows Server, version 1909 (Server Core installation)","platforms":["x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"publication"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows Server, version 1903 (Server Core installation)","platforms":["x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"publication"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows Server 2016","platforms":["x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"publication"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation)","platforms":["x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"6.1.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"publication"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1","platforms":["x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"6.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"publication"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (Server Core installation)","platforms":["x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"6.2.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"publication"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows Server 2012","platforms":["x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"6.2.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"publication"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows Server 2012 (Server Core installation)","platforms":["x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"6.3.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"publication"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows Server 2012 R2","platforms":["x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"6.3.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"publication"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Core installation)","platforms":["x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"publication"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows Server version 20H2","platforms":["x64-based Systems"]}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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