Buffer overflow in Microsoft Windows 10

CVE-2019-1185

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists due to a stack corruption in Windows Subsystem for Linux. 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 correcting how Windows Subsystem for Linux handles objects in memory.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.011 (62.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.