- 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.
- Source
- secure@microsoft.com
- NVD status
- Modified
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Secondary
- Base score
- 7.3
- Impact score
- 5.9
- Exploitability score
- 1.3
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- HIGH
CVSS 3.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.8
- Impact score
- 5.9
- Exploitability score
- 1.8
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- HIGH
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 4.6
- Impact score
- 6.4
- Exploitability score
- 3.9
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- nvd@nist.gov
- NVD-CWE-noinfo
- 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
- CWE-121
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
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