high7.8Known exploited
CVE-2019-1069
Microsoft Task Scheduler Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Exploited in the wild
This vulnerability is on a Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue, added 2022-03-15. Federal due date: 2022-04-05.
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Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft | Windows 10 1507 | All versions |
| Microsoft | Windows 10 1607 | All versions |
| Microsoft | Windows 10 1703 | All versions |
| Microsoft | Windows 10 1709 | All versions |
| Microsoft | Windows 10 1803 | All versions |
| Microsoft | Windows 10 1809 | All versions |
| Microsoft | Windows 10 1903 | All versions |
| Microsoft | Windows Server 1803 | All versions |
| Microsoft | Windows Server 1903 | All versions |
| Microsoft | Windows Server 2016 | All versions |
| Microsoft | Windows Server 2019 | All versions |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- CISA KEV catalog
- 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