CVE-2019-1053

EUVD-2019-9636 · Published Jun 12, 2019

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Shell fails to validate folder shortcuts. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could elevate privileges by escaping a sandbox. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would require unprivileged execution on the victim system. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correctly validating folder shortcuts.

Technologies

Microsoft Windows Server 2012Microsoft Windows 10Microsoft Windows Server 2019Microsoft Windows Rt 8.1Microsoft Windows 7Microsoft Windows 8.1Microsoft Windows Server 2008Microsoft Windows Server 2016

Weaknesses

CWE-59

CVSS scores

v3.16.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
v2.07.2AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

MITRE ATT&CK

Inferred

Where this vulnerability fits in an attack

ReconImpact

Execution Persistence Privilege Escalation Stealth

T1068Exploitation for Privilege Escalation T1027.006HTML Smuggling T1027.009Embedded Payloads T1547.009Shortcut Modification T1564.009Resource Forking T1574.005Executable Installer File Permissions Weakness T1574.010Services File Permissions Weakness

References

Potentially impacted assets

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