CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2019-1025 — A denial of service vulnerability exists when Windows improperly handles objects in memory
A denial of service vulnerability exists when Windows improperly handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could cause a target system to stop responding. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have to log on to an affected system and run a specially crafted application or to convince a user to open a specific file on a network share. The vulnerability would not allow an attacker to execute code or to elevate user rights directly, but it could be used to cause a target system to stop responding. The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Windows handles objects in memory.
- Severity
- High
- CVSS
- 7.8 (2.0)
- Published
- 2019-06-12
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- windows/system
Affected products
- microsoft / windows_10
- microsoft / windows_10 / 1607
- microsoft / windows_10 / 1703
- microsoft / windows_10 / 1709
- microsoft / windows_10 / 1803
- microsoft / windows_10 / 1809
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Matched remediation archetype
Resource exhaustion and denial of service
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Check exposure
- Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
- Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
- Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.
Remediate safely
- Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
- Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
- Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.
Authoritative sources
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