{"id":"CVE-2020-5755","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-5755","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T22:27:52.831Z","title":"This could allow attackers to trigger a crash or wait upon Webroot service restart to rewrite and hijack dlls in this directory for privilege escalation.","description":"Webroot endpoint agents prior to version v9.0.28.48 did not protect the \"%PROGRAMDATA%\\WrData\\PKG\" directory against renaming. This could allow attackers to trigger a crash or wait upon Webroot service restart to rewrite and hijack dlls in this directory for privilege escalation.","published":"2020-06-15T20:15:12.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:22:11.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"vulnreport@tenable.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-732"],"affected":["webroot/endpoint agents"],"epss":{"score":0.00501,"percentile":0.42629,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.50%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2020-36","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"vulnreport@tenable.com"},{"url":"https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2020-36","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5755","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}