Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) Multi-Factor Authentication

Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) Multi-Factor Authentication

CVE-2020-0837 · MEDIUM Severity

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

<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>

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