CVE-2019-0948: Microsoft Windows 10

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 12.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the Windows Event Viewer (eventvwr.msc) when it improperly parses XML input containing a reference to an external entity. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could read arbitrary files via an XML external entity (XXE) declaration. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker could create a file containing specially crafted XML content and convince an authenticated user to import the file. The update addresses the vulnerability by modifying the way that the Event Viewer parses XML input.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 10: affected versions not specified; version 1607 only; version 1703 only; version 1709 only; version 1803 only; version 1809 only; …
• Microsoft Windows 7: affected versions not specified
• Microsoft Windows 8.1: affected versions not specified
• Microsoft Windows Rt 8.1: affected versions not specified
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008: affected versions not specified; version r2 only
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012: affected versions not specified; version r2 only
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016: affected versions not specified; version 1803 only; version 1903 only
• Microsoft Windows Server 2019: affected versions not specified

Published 2019-06-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.