Vulnerability Details CVE-2019-1185
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 for Linux handles objects in memory.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.008
EPSS Ranking 73.0%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.8
CVSS v2 Score 4.6
References
Products affected by CVE-2019-1185
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1903
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2016:1903