# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2020-1540"
idYear: 2020
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2020-08-17T19:13:32.000Z"
updatedAt: "2024-08-04T06:39:10.791Z"
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-2020-1540"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2020-1540.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-1540"
title: "Windows Backup Engine Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability"
summary: "An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Backup Engine improperly handles memory.\nTo exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted application to elevate privileges.\nThe security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how the Windows Backup Engine handles memory."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"publication"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows 10 Version 2004","platforms":["32-bit Systems","ARM64-based Systems","x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"publication"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows 10 Version 1803","platforms":["32-bit Systems","x64-based Systems","ARM64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"publication"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows 10 Version 1809","platforms":["32-bit Systems","x64-based Systems","ARM64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"publication"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows 10 Version 1909","platforms":["32-bit Systems","x64-based Systems","ARM64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"publication"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows 10 Version 1709 for 32-bit Systems","platforms":["32-bit Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"publication"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows 10 Version 1709","platforms":["x64-based Systems","ARM64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"publication"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows 10 Version 1903 for 32-bit Systems","platforms":["Unknown"]},{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"publication"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows 10 Version 1903 for x64-based Systems","platforms":["Unknown"]},{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"publication"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows 10 Version 1903 for ARM64-based Systems","platforms":["Unknown"]},{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"publication"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows 10 Version 1507","platforms":["32-bit Systems","x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"10.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"publication"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows 10 Version 1607","platforms":["32-bit Systems","x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"6.1.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"publication"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows 7","platforms":["32-bit Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"6.1.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"publication"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows 7 Service Pack 1","platforms":["x64-based Systems"]},{"versions":[{"version":"6.3.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"publication"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Windows 8.1","platforms":["32-bit Systems","x64-based Systems","ARM64-based Systems"]}]

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