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high 7.8

CVE-2019-1082 json

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Microsoft Windows where a certain DLL, with Local Service privilege, is vulnerable to rac…

published 2019-07-15 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-9663

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 67%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Microsoft Windows where a certain DLL, with Local Service privilege, is vulnerable to race planting a customized DLL.An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could potentially elevate privilege to SYSTEM.The update addresses this vulnerability by requiring SYSTEM privileges for a certain DLL., aka 'Microsoft Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2019-1074.

Patch / fix

Exploit prediction

1.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 67% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • Microsoft Windows
  • Microsoft Windows Server

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.