CVE-2020-1472

What the flaw is

Microsoft's Netlogon Remote Protocol (MS-NRPC) contains a privilege escalation vulnerability when an attacker establishes a vulnerable Netlogon secure channel connection to a domain controller. An attacker who successfully exploits the vulnerability could run a specially crafted application on a device on the network. The vulnerability is also known under the moniker of Zerologon.

Description as published by CISA. We have not independently reproduced it.

What CISA requires

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

This deadline is binding on US federal civilian agencies under BOD 22-01. It is not a legal deadline for anyone else, but it is a useful urgency signal — CISA sets it by how actively the flaw is being used, not by CVSS.

Public exploit code

469 public repositories referencing this CVE have been catalogued on GitHub. That volume usually means a reliable, widely-reproduced exploit. Treat this as a strong signal to prioritise patching, not as a verified working exploit — many such repositories are scanners, write-ups or forks rather than functional code.

• 0x4ymn/PENTESTING_BIBLE
• 0x727/usefull-elevation-of-privilege
• 0x783kb/Security-operation-book
• 0x7n6/BIBLE
• 0x7n6/OSCP
• 0xHunterr/OSCP-Study-Notes
• 0xHunterr/OSCP-Studying-Notes
• 0xMarcio/cve

Showing 8 of 469. Full list in the trickest/cve dataset.

Vendor advisories

• www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/ed-20-04-mitigate-netlogon-elevation-privi
• nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1472

Primary sources

• NVD entry — CVSS score, CPE list and references
• CISA KEV catalog — the source for this page
• CVE Record at cve.org