CVE-2019-1416: Microsoft Windows 10

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists due to a race condition in Windows Subsystem for Linux, aka 'Windows Subsystem for Linux Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 10: version 1709 only; version 1803 only; version 1809 only; version 1903 only
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016: version 1803 only; version 1903 only
• Microsoft Windows Server 2019: affected versions not specified

Published 2019-11-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.