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High severity7.3NVD Advisory· Published Aug 14, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2019-1185

CVE-2019-1185

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists due to a stack corruption in Windows Subsystem for Linux. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute code with elevated permissions. To exploit the vulnerability, a locally authenticated attacker could run a specially crafted application. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Windows Subsystem for Linux handles objects in memory.

Affected products

3

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

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