CVE detail

CVE-2019-0859 — Microsoft Win32k Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Published 2021-11-03 · Modified 2021-11-03 · Source kev

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

n/a

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0415

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

90.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

LISTED

CISA KEV

due 2022-05-03

Description

Microsoft Win32k fails to properly handle objects in memory causing privilege escalation. Successful exploitation allows an attacker to run code in kernel mode.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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