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CVE-2019-10679

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-10679 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Thomson Reuters Eikon 4.0.42144, where weak permissions on the service executable allow any local user to modify it. With a CVSS v3.1 score of 7.8 (High), an attacker can achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.0.42144CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:thomsonreuters:eikon:4.0.42144:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.48%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
38.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0048 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 16,994 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

packetstormsecurity.com / files/158989/Eikon-Thomson-Reuters-4.0.42144-File-Permissions.html
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2020/Aug/19
ExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
sec-consult.com / en/blog/advisories/extensive-file-permissions-on-service-executable-in-eikon-thomson-reuters-cve-2019-10679
Third Party Advisory
sec-consult.com / en/vulnerability-lab/advisories/index.html
Third Party Advisory
thomsonreuters.com / en/products-services.html
Vendor Advisory