CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-1380

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

Published: Nov 12, 2019 | Modified: Aug 24, 2020
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
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

A local elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in how splwow64.exe handles certain calls, aka Microsoft splwow64 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability.

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_server_2012 Microsoft r2 r2
Windows_10 Microsoft 1607 1607
Windows_8.1 Microsoft - -
Windows_server_2016 Microsoft - -
Windows_rt_8.1 Microsoft - -
Windows_server_2012 Microsoft - -
Windows_10 Microsoft - -
Windows_10 Microsoft 1709 1709
Windows_10 Microsoft 1803 1803
Windows_server_2016 Microsoft 1803 1803
Windows_server_2019 Microsoft - -
Windows_10 Microsoft 1809 1809
Windows_server_2016 Microsoft 1903 1903
Windows_10 Microsoft 1903 1903

Potential Mitigations

References