CVE-2019-1069
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.8 · CWE-59 · actively exploited (CISA KEV)
7.8CVSS HIGH ● exploited ⚠ ransomware
🔴 Actively exploited in the wild (CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities).
⚠ Known use in ransomware campaigns. Added to KEV 2022-03-15. US federal agencies must patch by 2022-04-05.
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)32%
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (2)
Recommendation
This vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild — patch affected products urgently. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2019-1069 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2019-1069Patch
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-1069Patch
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/119704Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2019-1069
- https://blog.0patch.com/2019/06/another-task-scheduler-0day-another.htmlAdvisory