CVE-2019-1179

Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

High · published August 14, 2019

CVSS v3.1
7.0
EPSS
1%
Percentile
56.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the unistore.dll handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute code with elevated permissions.

To exploit the vulnerability, a locally authenticated attacker could run a specially crafted application.

The security update addresses the vulnerability by ensuring the unistore.dll properly handles objects in memory.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.0 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00816 · 56.6th percentile
Published
2019-08-14T20:55Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 14 AUG 20:55Z
    Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
    cvelistv5