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Windows Certificate Dialog Elevation of Privilege

IdentifiersCVE-2019-1388CWE-269· Improper Privilege Management

CVE-2019-1388 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Windows Certificate Dialog. The vulnerability arises because the dialog does not properly enforce user privileges, allowing a local attacker to gain elevated privileges by exploiting the improper privilege enforcement mechanism.

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Impact, mitigation & remediation

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Impact

What an attacker gets, and what they’ve been doing with it.

A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute code with elevated privileges, potentially leading to full system compromise if leveraged in conjunction with other attacks.

Mitigation

If you can’t patch tonight, do this now.

Restrict local access to the system and ensure that users operate with the least privileges necessary until the patch is applied.

Remediation

Patch, then assume compromise.

Apply the security update provided by Microsoft to address the improper privilege enforcement in the Windows Certificate Dialog.
PUBLIC EXPLOITS

Exploits

No valid public exploits. Mallory filtered out 4 candidates as fakes, detection scripts, or README-only repos.

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EXPOSURE SURFACE

Affected products & vendors

Products and vendors Mallory has correlated with this vulnerability. Open in Mallory to drill down to specific CPE configurations and version ranges.

VendorProductType
Microsoft CorporationWindows 10 1507operating_system
Microsoft CorporationWindows 10 1607operating_system
Microsoft CorporationWindows 10 1709operating_system
Microsoft CorporationWindows 10 1803operating_system
Microsoft CorporationWindows 10 1809operating_system
Microsoft CorporationWindows 10 1903operating_system
Microsoft CorporationWindows 7operating_system
Microsoft CorporationWindows 8.1operating_system
Microsoft CorporationWindows Rt 8.1operating_system
Microsoft CorporationWindows Server 1903operating_system
Microsoft CorporationWindows Server 2008operating_system
Microsoft CorporationWindows Server 2012operating_system
Microsoft CorporationWindows Server 2016operating_system
Microsoft CorporationWindows Server 2019operating_system

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Threat actor evidence

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Associated malware1

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Detection signatures1

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Vendor-by-vendor mapping

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Social activity

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