CVE-2019-0942

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Unified Write Filter (UWF) feature for Windows 10 when it improperly restricts access to the registry, aka 'Unified Write Filter Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Unified Write Filter (UWF) feature for Windows 10 when it improperly restricts access to the registry, aka 'Unified Write Filter Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.5. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

Type

Microsoft Windows

First reported 5 years ago

2019-05-16 19:29:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-05-20 14:28:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Windows 10 1703

1703

Microsoft Windows 10 1709

1709

Microsoft Windows 10 1803

1803

Microsoft Windows 10 1809

1809

Microsoft Windows Server 2016

Microsoft Windows Server 2016 1803

1803

Microsoft Windows Server 2019

References

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-0942

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