CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-1454

Improper Privilege Management

Published: Jan 24, 2020 | Modified: Jan 27, 2020
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
3.6 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows User Profile Service (ProfSvc) improperly handles symlinks, aka Windows User Profile Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability.

Weakness

The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Windows_server_2008 Microsoft r2 r2
Windows_server_2012 Microsoft r2 r2
Windows_server_2008 Microsoft r2 r2
Windows_10 Microsoft 1607 1607
Windows_8.1 Microsoft - -
Windows_server_2016 Microsoft - -
Windows_server_2008 Microsoft - -
Windows_7 Microsoft - -
Windows_rt_8.1 Microsoft - -
Windows_10 Microsoft 1703 1703
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