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Microsoft Windows: CVE-2019-0766: Microsoft Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Mar 12, 2019
Added
Mar 12, 2019
Modified
Sep 5, 2025

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows AppX Deployment Server that allows file creation in arbitrary locations. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system, aka 'Microsoft Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

Solutions

microsoft-windows-windows_10-1607-kb4489882microsoft-windows-windows_10-1703-kb4489871microsoft-windows-windows_10-1709-kb4489886microsoft-windows-windows_10-1803-kb4489868microsoft-windows-windows_10-1809-kb4489899microsoft-windows-windows_server_2016-1607-kb4489882microsoft-windows-windows_server_2019-1809-kb4489899
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