CVE-2019-1315 — Microsoft Windows Error Reporting Manager Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
CVE-2019-1315: Microsoft Windows Error Reporting Manager Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)
| Vendor / project | Microsoft |
| Product | Windows |
| Date added | 2022-03-15 |
| Due date | 2022-04-05 |
| Ransomware campaign use | Known |
Description
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists when Windows Error Reporting manager improperly handles hard links. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could overwrite a targeted file leading to an elevated status.
Required action (CISA)
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-1315
Weakness behind it
CISA records this vulnerability as an instance of CWE-59. From there the chain continues into CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques, all inside this corpus.
References
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-1315
- KEV catalog: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
See all 1,745 pages under Vulnerabilities (CVE) →
Related pages
Browse by topic
Every page in the corpus, grouped. Search finds one page; this shows what else is here.