Race Planting Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows

CVE-2019-1082 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Microsoft Windows where a certain DLL, with Local Service privilege, is vulnerable to race planting a customized DLL.An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could potentially elevate privilege to SYSTEM.The update addresses this vulnerability by requiring SYSTEM privileges for a certain DLL., aka 'Microsoft Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2019-1074.

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