CVE-2019-1458

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Win32k component fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka 'Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

  • Published Dec 10, 2019
  • CVSS 7.8 high
  • 74.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS)
  • In CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
  • A Metasploit module exploits it
  • A fix is available

Affected software

CVE-2019-1458 at the National Vulnerability Database