Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Microsoft products - CVE-2019-1232

 

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Microsoft products - CVE-2019-1232

Published: September 10, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU20999
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-1232
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Microsoft
Affected software:
Visual Studio
Windows
Windows Server

Detailed vulnerability description

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.


How to mitigate CVE-2019-1232

Install update from vendor's website.

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