CVE-2019-1425
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Visual Studio fails to properly validate...
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Visual Studio fails to properly validate hardlinks while extracting archived files, aka 'Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- Required
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Visual Studio fails to properly validate hardlinks while extracting archived files, aka 'Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.
- Record
CVE-2019-1425- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N - CVSS 2.0
- 5.8 Medium
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P - Weakness
- CWE-59
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Visual Studio fails to properly validate hardlinks while extracting archived files, aka 'Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.
- Record
CVE-2019-1425- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2019-9982 No score
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Visual Studio fails to properly validate hardlinks while extracting archived files, aka 'Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.
- Record
EUVD-2019-9982- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-r2h3-mjxh-65r2 No score
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Visual Studio fails to properly validate...
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Visual Studio fails to properly validate hardlinks while extracting archived files, aka 'Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.
- Record
GHSA-r2h3-mjxh-65r2- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2019-1425 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) in Microsoft Visual Studio 2017, published November 12, 2019. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 3.34%, the 88th percentile. No source names a fixed version.