CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-1161

7.1 HIGH Published 2019-08-14 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-08-14
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the MpSigStub.exe for Defender allows file deletion in arbitrary locations. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted command that could exploit the vulnerability and delete protected files on an affected system once MpSigStub.exe ran again. The update addresses the vulnerability and blocks the arbitrary deletion.

Affected configurations

• microsoft windows defender • microsoft forefront endpoint protection 2010 • microsoft security essentials • microsoft system center endpoint protection • microsoft system center endpoint protection 2012

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (2)

  • CWE-1386 Insecure Operation on Windows Junction / Mount Point weakness
  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References