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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.0.42144CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:thomsonreuters:eikon:4.0.42144:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.