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CVE-2019-1365

CRITICAL

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Microsoft IIS Server fails to check the length of a buffer prior to copying memory to it.An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability can allow an unprivileged function ran by the user to execute code in the context of NT AUTHORITY\system escaping the Sandbox.The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft IIS Server sanitizes web requests., aka 'Microsoft IIS Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

Published: Oct 10, 2019 Modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD-CWE-noinfo

CVSS Metrics

CVSSv3
Attack Vector: NETWORK Attack Complexity: LOW Privileges Required: LOW User Interaction: NONE Scope: CHANGED Confidentiality Impact: HIGH Integrity Impact: HIGH Availability Impact: HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products (16)

Vendor Product Version
microsoft windows_10 1607
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_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 -

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-rchr-fxr5-m4xq

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Microsoft IIS Server fails to check the...

Risk Scores

CVSS Score 9.9 / 10
EPSS Score 4.35%

Top 9% most likely to be exploited

Threat Score 40.9 / 100

Data Sources

NVD EPSS GitHub