VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2019-1215

CVSS score7.8 HIGH

EPSS probability19.25%

CISA KEVKnown exploited vulnerability

Published2019-09-11

Last modified2026-06-17

CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Known Exploited Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Vendor / product: Microsoft / Windows

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that ws2ifsl.sys (Winsock) handles objects in memory, aka 'Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2019-1253, CVE-2019-1278, CVE-2019-1303.

Weakness classification

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-noinfo
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0: CWE-269

Primary references

secure@microsoft.com — Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Patch, Vendor Advisory
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 — US Government Resource