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CVE-2019-1132

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-1132 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Win32k component of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008, allowing an attacker to gain higher privileges on an affected system. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), indicating a significant risk, as it can be exploited locally with low attack complexity and no user interaction, leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. It is actively exploited in the wild, with public exploit code available on ExploitDB, and has garnered substantial community discussion and media coverage, including its use by the Buhtrap Group in cyber-espionage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_7:-:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008:-:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
r2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008:r2:sp1:*:*:*:*:itanium:*
r2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008:r2:sp1:*:*:*:*:x64:*

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
9.79%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · Mar 15, 2022
ExploitDB: EDB-47176 · Jul 26, 2019
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0979 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 17,070 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

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (11)

microsoftpatch availablevia nvd_reference
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 7 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 1
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 7 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-Based Systems Service Pack 1
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1 (Server Core installation)
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 2 (Server Core installation)
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 2
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 2 (Server Core installation)
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based Systems Service Pack 2
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 2
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2019-Jul/CVE-2019-1132Important

Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Jul 9, 2019

References

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
portal.msrc.microsoft.com / en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-1132
PatchVendor Advisory