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CVE-2019-1388

CVE-2019-1388

CVSS 7.8 HIGHEPSS 8.6%● KEVCWE-269
In short

A flaw in Windows' certificate dialog allows unprivileged users to gain elevated (admin) privileges by exploiting improper permission checks. An attacker can abuse the dialog to run commands with higher privileges than their account allows.

Technical detail

CWE-269 improper privilege management in Windows Certificate Dialog fails to enforce privilege restrictions. An attacker with standard user privileges can interact with the certificate dialog component to escalate to administrator-level execution; exploitation requires local access and user interaction with the vulnerable dialog.

Summary generated and translated by AI from the official description.
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Windows Certificate Dialog when it does not properly enforce user privileges, aka 'Windows Certificate Dialog Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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