Microsoft security update for CVE-2019-1185 — Windows
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products4
- Windows 10 Version 1903 for 32-bit Systems
- Windows 10 Version 1903 for ARM64-based Systems
- Windows 10 Version 1903 for x64-based Systems
- Windows Server, version 1903 (Server Core installation)
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 1 KB article
1 row: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| KB4512508 | Security Update | — |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2019-1185
- EchelonGraph score
- 7.3 HIGH
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists due to a stack corruption in Windows Subsystem for Linux. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute code with elevated permissions. To exploit the vulnerability, a locally authenticated attacker could run a specially crafted application. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Windows Subsystem for Linux handles objects in memory.
Published by Microsoft Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2019-1185, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).