Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Microsoft products - CVE-2019-1232
Published: September 10, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU20999
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-1232
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to an error when the Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service improperly impersonates certain file operations. A local user can use a specially crafted application to trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
Affected software
Microsoft Windows
Windows Server
Visual Studio
Windows Server
Visual Studio
How to mitigate CVE-2019-1232
Install update from vendor's website.