CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-1065

Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

Published: Jun 12, 2019 | Modified: Mar 24, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/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 Windows kernel fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2019-1041.

Weakness

The product checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource’s state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check. This can cause the product to perform invalid actions when the resource is in an unexpected state.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
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)

Potential Mitigations

References