CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-0998

Published: Jun 12, 2019 | Modified: May 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Storage Service improperly handles file operations. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain elevated privileges on the victim system. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim system, then run a specially crafted application. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how the Storage Services handles file operations.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Windows_10 Microsoft 1709 (including) 1709 (including)
Windows_10 Microsoft 1803 (including) 1803 (including)
Windows_10 Microsoft 1809 (including) 1809 (including)
Windows_10 Microsoft 1903 (including) 1903 (including)
Windows_server_2016 Microsoft 1803 (including) 1803 (including)
Windows_server_2016 Microsoft 1903 (including) 1903 (including)
Windows_server_2019 Microsoft - (including) - (including)

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