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CVE Number Vulnerability Product Severity Date
CVE-2019-0863 Windows Error Reporting Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Windows 7 Important 15-05-2019

Technical Information

Brief overview of the risk:
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way Windows Error Reporting (WER) handles files. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with administrator privileges.

Detailed Information on the risk:
To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker must first gain unprivileged execution on a victim system.

The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting the way WER handles files.

Further information on this exploit is available at : CVE-2019-0863

Affected Software


Windows 7 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 1,
Windows 7 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1,
Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1 (Server Core installation),
Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-Based Systems Service Pack 1,
Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1,
Windows Server 2012,
Windows Server 2012 (Server Core installation),
Windows 8.1 for 32-bit systems,
Windows 8.1 for x64-based systems,
Windows Server 2012 R2,
Windows RT 8.1,
Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Core installation),
Windows 10 for 32-bit Systems,
Windows 10 for x64-based Systems,
Windows Server 2016,
Windows 10 Version 1607 for 32-bit Systems,
Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems,
Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation),
Windows 10 Version 1703 for 32-bit Systems,
Windows 10 Version 1703 for x64-based Systems,
Windows 10 Version 1709 for 32-bit Systems,
Windows 10 Version 1709 for x64-based Systems,
Windows 10 Version 1803 for 32-bit Systems,
Windows 10 Version 1803 for x64-based Systems,
Windows Server, version 1803 (Server Core Installation),
Windows 10 Version 1803 for ARM64-based Systems,
Windows 10 Version 1809 for 32-bit Systems,
Windows 10 Version 1809 for x64-based Systems,
Windows 10 Version 1809 for ARM64-based Systems,
Windows Server 2019,
Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation),
Windows 10 Version 1709 for ARM64-based Systems,
Windows 10 Version 1903 for 32-bit Systems,
Windows 10 Version 1903 for x64-based Systems,
Windows 10 Version 1903 for ARM64-based Systems,
Windows Server, version 1903 (Server Core installation)