CVE-2019-0983: Microsoft Windows 10

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Storage Service improperly handles file operations. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain elevated privileges on the victim system. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would first have to gain execution on the victim system, then run a specially crafted application. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how the Storage Services handles file operations.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 10: version 1607 only; version 1703 only; version 1709 only; version 1803 only; version 1809 only; version 1903 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.