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CVE-2019-0948: Windows Event Viewer Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 22/100)

Public proof-of-concept code exists (Exploit-DB); there is no record of exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 12.6% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 96.2% of all records.
Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. No account or password is required. A user must open a link or visit a page. Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.
Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the Windows Event Viewer (eventvwr.msc) when it improperly parses XML input containing a reference to an external entity. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could read arbitrary files via an XML external entity (XXE) declaration. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker could create a file containing specially crafted XML content and convince an authenticated user to import the file. The update addresses the vulnerability by modifying the way that the Event Viewer parses XML input.

MediumCVSS 4.7 · v3.1—Proof of concept No fix recorded

BDU:2019-02246

Published: Jun 12, 2019
Updated: Jun 16, 2026
EPSS: 12.6% · 96th percentile
CWE: CWE-611

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 18 / 40 · 4.7 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 4 / 30 · 12.6%

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: —
CNA · microsoft: 4.7; NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
microsoft	windows 10	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10
microsoft	windows 7	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_7
microsoft	windows 8.1	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_8.1
microsoft	windows rt 8.1	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_rt_8.1
microsoft	windows server 2008	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008
microsoft	windows server 2012	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2012
microsoft	windows server 2016	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2016
microsoft	windows server 2019	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2019

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

microsoft windows server 2008all versions
microsoft windows server 2008r2
microsoft windows server 2012all versions
microsoft windows server 2012r2
microsoft windows server 2016all versions
microsoft windows server 20161803
microsoft windows server 20161903
microsoft windows server 2019all versions

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (microsoft). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1507
- 10.0.10240.0 and later · before publicationaffected
Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1607
- 10.0.14393.0 and later · before publicationaffected
Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1703
- 10.0.0 and later · before publicationaffected
Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1709
- 10.0.0 and later · before publicationaffected
Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1709 for 32-bit Systems
- 10.0.0 and later · before publicationaffected
Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1803
- 10.0.0 and later · before publicationaffected
Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1809
- 10.0.17763.0 and later · before publicationaffected
- 10.0.0 and later · before publicationaffected
Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1903 for 32-bit Systems
- 10.0.0 and later · before publicationaffected
Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1903 for ARM64-based Systems
- 10.0.0 and later · before publicationaffected
Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1903 for x64-based Systems
- 10.0.0 and later · before publicationaffected
Microsoft Windows 7
- 6.1.0 and later · before publicationaffected
Microsoft Windows 7 Service Pack 1
- 6.1.0 and later · before publicationaffected

Same product

microsoft: all records

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Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2019-0941Jun 12, 2019 · Microsoft IIS Server Denial of Service Vulnerability
18Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2019-0943Jun 12, 2019 · Windows ALPC Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
32Monitor
Later →CVE-2019-0959Jun 12, 2019 · Windows Common Log File System Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
29Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

Proof of concept available

A public proof of concept or detection signature exists. Exploit knowledge is out there; don't delay patching.

Evidence

Exploit-DB entry ×1

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Public exploit evidence
Source	Kind	Date
Exploit-DB entry	local	2016-12-05

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

First PoCDec 5, 2016-919 d
PublishedJun 12, 2019
TodayOct 28, 2026+2695 d

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).