CVE-2019-1161

Microsoft Defender Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

published August 14, 2019

CVSS
—
EPSS
1%
Percentile
60.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the MpSigStub.exe for Defender allows file deletion in arbitrary locations.

To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted command that could exploit the vulnerability and delete protected files on an affected system once MpSigStub.exe ran again.

The update addresses the vulnerability and blocks the arbitrary deletion.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00951 · 60.9th percentile
Published
2019-08-14T20:55Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 14 AUG 20:55Z
    Microsoft Defender Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
    cvelistv5