CVE detail

CVE-2019-1053 — CVE-2019-1053

Published 2019-06-12 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor microsoft · Product windows_10 · Source nvd

MEDIUM

severity

CVSS-derived band

6.3

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0126

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

67.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Shell fails to validate folder shortcuts. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could elevate privileges by escaping a sandbox. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would require unprivileged execution on the victim system. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correctly validating folder shortcuts.

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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