CVE-2019-1168: Microsoft Windows 10

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An elevation of privilege exists in the p2pimsvc service where an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code with elevated privileges. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted application that could exploit the vulnerability and take control of an affected system. The update addresses this vulnerability by correcting how the p2pimsvc service handles processes these requests.

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 2019-08-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.