CVE-2019-1069 KEV
7.8
HIGH · CVSS 3.1 · EPSS 6.1% (pctl 93)
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On CISA KEV — known exploited in the wild, due 2022-04-05.
Description
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way the Task Scheduler Service validates certain file operations. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could gain elevated privileges on a victim system. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would require unprivileged code execution on a victim system. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correctly validating file operations.
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.8 (HIGH, v3.1) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 6.12% — more likely to be exploited than 93% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-59 |
| On CISA KEV | yes — remediate by 2022-04-05 |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2019-06-12 |
| Last modified | 2026-08-12 |
CISA KEV
| Name | Microsoft Task Scheduler Privilege Escalation Vulnerability |
|---|---|
| Added | 2022-03-15 |
| Due | 2022-04-05 |
| Vendor / product | Microsoft / Task Scheduler |
| Ransomware use | known |
Affected (11)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| microsoft | windows 10 1507 |
| microsoft | windows 10 1607 |
| microsoft | windows 10 1703 |
| microsoft | windows 10 1709 |
| microsoft | windows 10 1803 |
| microsoft | windows 10 1809 |
| microsoft | windows 10 1903 |
| microsoft | windows server 1803 |
| microsoft | windows server 1903 |
| microsoft | windows server 2016 |
| microsoft | windows server 2019 |
References
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2019-1069
- https://blog.0patch.com/2019/06/another-task-scheduler-0day-another.html
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-1069
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/119704
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2019-1069
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