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.
CVSS breakdown
CVSS 3.1
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
E
Physical
RL
O
RC
Changed
Affected products
- Microsoft / Windows 10 Version 150710.0.10240.0 – publication
- Microsoft / Windows 10 Version 160710.0.14393.0 – publication
- Microsoft / Windows 10 Version 170310.0.0 – publication
- Microsoft / Windows 10 Version 170910.0.0 – publication
- Microsoft / Windows 10 Version 1709 for 32-bit Systems10.0.0 – publication
- Microsoft / Windows 10 Version 180310.0.0 – publication
- Microsoft / Windows 10 Version 180910.0.0 – publication
- Microsoft / Windows 10 Version 180910.0.17763.0 – publication
- Microsoft / Windows 10 Version 1903 for 32-bit Systems10.0.0 – publication
- Microsoft / Windows 10 Version 1903 for ARM64-based Systems10.0.0 – publication
- Microsoft / Windows 10 Version 1903 for x64-based Systems10.0.0 – publication
- Microsoft / Windows Server 201610.0.14393.0 – publication
- Microsoft / Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation)10.0.14393.0 – publication
- Microsoft / Windows Server 201910.0.17763.0 – publication
- Microsoft / Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)10.0.17763.0 – publication
- Microsoft / Windows Server, version 1803 (Server Core Installation)10.0.0 – publication
- Microsoft / Windows Server, version 1903 (Server Core installation)10.0.0 – publication