FKIE_CVE-2019-0797

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2019-04-09 03:29 - Updated: 2025-10-29 14:45
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Win32k component fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka 'Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2019-0808.
References
secure@microsoft.comhttps://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-0797Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-0797Patch, Vendor Advisory
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2019-0797US Government Resource
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
microsoft windows_10_1507 -
microsoft windows_10_1507 -
microsoft windows_10_1607 -
microsoft windows_10_1607 -
microsoft windows_10_1703 -
microsoft windows_10_1703 -
microsoft windows_10_1709 -
microsoft windows_10_1709 -
microsoft windows_10_1709 -
microsoft windows_10_1803 -
microsoft windows_10_1803 -
microsoft windows_10_1803 -
microsoft windows_10_1809 -
microsoft windows_10_1809 -
microsoft windows_10_1809 -
microsoft windows_8.1 -
microsoft windows_rt_8.1 -
microsoft windows_server_1709 -
microsoft windows_server_1803 -
microsoft windows_server_2012 -
microsoft windows_server_2012 r2
microsoft windows_server_2016 -
microsoft windows_server_2019 -
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