CVE-2019-1388
Improper Privilege Management — is CVE-2019-1388real, exploitable, or a false positive? Here's the community ground truth.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Windows Certificate Dialog when it does not properly enforce user privileges, aka 'Windows Certificate Dialog Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.
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Microsoft Windows Certificate Dialog Privilege Escalation Vulnerability — Microsoft Windows Certificate Dialog contains a privilege escalation vulnerability, allowing attackers to run processes in an elevated context. Listed in the CISA KEV catalog (added 2023-04-07) — confirmed exploited in the wild, not theoretical. It is linked to known ransomware campaigns. FIRST EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at ~9%. Treat it as real and prioritize remediation over triage.
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Required action for Microsoft Windows: Apply updates per vendor instructions. CISA set a federal remediation due date of 2023-04-28. After patching, verify the vulnerable path is no longer reachable before closing the finding.
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