CVE-2019-1190: Microsoft Windows 10

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

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows kernel image handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute code with elevated permissions. To exploit the vulnerability, a locally authenticated attacker could run a specially crafted application. The security update addresses the vulnerability by ensuring the Windows kernel image properly handles objects in memory.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 10: version 1809 only; version 1903 only
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016: version 1903 only
• Microsoft Windows Server 2019: affected versions not specified

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