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CVE-2019-1185 — An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists due to a stack corruption in Wind

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists due to a stack corruption in Windows Subsystem for Linux. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute code with elevated permissions. To exploit the vulnerability, a locally authenticated attacker could run

CVSS
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EPSS
0.80% (top 26.20%)
CWE
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Published
2019-08-14T20:55:04.000Z
Last modified
2024-08-04T18:13:29.478Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists due to a stack corruption in Windows Subsystem for Linux. 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 correcting how Windows Subsystem…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
MicrosoftWindows 10 Version 1903 for 32bit Systems — 10.0.0
MicrosoftWindows 10 Version 1903 for x64based Systems — 10.0.0
MicrosoftWindows 10 Version 1903 for ARM64based Systems — 10.0.0
MicrosoftWindows Server, version 1903 (Server Core installation)10.0.0

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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