CVE-2019-0985: Microsoft Windows 7
High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Microsoft Speech API (SAPI) improperly handles text-to-speech (TTS) input. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in a way that enables an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would need to convince a user to open a specially crafted document containing TTS content invoked through a scripting language. The update address the vulnerability by modifying how the system handles objects in memory.
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Published 2019-06-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.