CVE-2019-1416

7.0 highEPSS 0.5%

High (7.0) in microsoft. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists due to a race condition in Windows Subsystem for Linux, aka 'Windows Subsystem for Linux Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.0 high

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

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 41% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-362
Published: 2019-11-12
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

microsoft:windows_10
microsoft:windows_server_2016
microsoft:windows_server_2019

References

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-1416
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-1416

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