CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-0973
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-06-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Windows Installer when the Windows Installer fails to properly sanitize input leading to an insecure library loading behavior.
A locally authenticated attacker could run arbitrary code with elevated system privileges. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.
The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting the input sanitization error to preclude unintended elevation.
Affected configurations
• microsoft windows 10
• 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 7
• microsoft windows 8.1
• microsoft windows rt 8.1
• microsoft windows server 2008
• microsoft windows server 2008 r2
• microsoft windows server 2012
• microsoft windows server 2012 r2
• microsoft windows server 2016
• microsoft windows server 2016 1803
• microsoft windows server 2016 1903
• microsoft windows server 2019
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2019-0973 msrc.microsoft.com
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-0973 Patch, Vendor Advisory