CVE-2019-1069

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way the Task Scheduler Service validates certain file operations. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could gain elevated privileges on a victim system. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would require unprivileged code execution on a victim system. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correctly validating file operations.

Severity scores

Each score is shown as its source gave it. They are not averaged or merged.

• 7.8CVSS 3.1, Highfrom the CNA (microsoft)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

What to do

• Apply updates per vendor instructions.CISA KEV required action

Historical context and remediation

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Version statuses below come from the CNA. An “unaffected” version is not necessarily a currently supported release or proof of a patch date. EPSS is a dated risk estimate, not a count of historical attacks.

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Affected products

Timeline

1. 12 Jun 2019 Published
2. 15 Mar 2022 CVE-2019-1069 added to CISA KEV
3. 15 Mar 2022 Added to the CISA KEV catalogue

Weakness

• CWE-59

References

• Task Scheduler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilityvendor-advisory