CVE-2019-1069
Act now ● On CISA KEV — actively exploited used in ransomware
Actively exploited — on the CISA KEV list.
CVSS base
7.8
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)
6.1%
93.1th percentile
CISA KEV
Listed
Added 2022-03-15 · patch by 2022-04-05
Weakness / dates
CWE-59
Published 2019-06-12 · modified 2026-08-12
Description
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way the Task Scheduler Service validates certain file operations. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could gain elevated privileges on a victim system. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would require unprivileged code execution on a victim system. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correctly validating file operations.
Affected
References
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2019-1069
- exploit https://blog.0patch.com/2019/06/another-task-scheduler-0day-another.html
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-1069
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/119704
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2019-1069