An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Win32k component fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka 'Win32k…

published 2019-04-09 7y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-1445

cvss: 7.8; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.6%; EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 76%
public exploits: 0; none known

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Win32k component fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka 'Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2019-0803, CVE-2019-0859.

Patch / fix

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portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-0685 advisory

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Exploit prediction

1.65% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 76% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	7.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	7.2	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

Microsoft Windows Server
Microsoft Windows

References

portal.msrc.microsoft.com /en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-0685
patch, vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2019-0685
NVD CVE-2019-0685

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