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CVE-2019-0880

High CVSS 7.8 Known exploited

Published 2019-07-15 · last changed 2026-06-17 · added to CISA KEV 2022-05-23

This one is being exploited in the wild.

CISA added CVE-2019-0880 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2022-05-23. Federal agencies are required to remediate it on a deadline. If you have affected machines, this is the class of finding that moves ahead of the rest of the queue.

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-2019-0880, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

A local elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in how splwow64.exe handles certain calls, aka 'Microsoft splwow64 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

Sources

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