CVE-2019-1040
MEDIUM 5.9EPSS 48.0%
A tampering vulnerability exists in Microsoft Windows when a man-in-the-middle attacker is able to successfully bypass the NTLM MIC (Message Integrity Check) protection. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the ability to downgrade NTLM security features.To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker would need to tamper with the NTLM exchange. The attacker could then modify flags of the NTLM packet without invalidating the signature.The update addresses the vulnerability by hardening NTLM MIC protection on the server-side.
- CVSS v3.1
- 5.3 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N - CVSS v3.0
- 5.9 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N - CVSS v2.0
- 4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N - EPSS
- 48.04% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 99th percentile
- Published
- 2019-06-12
- Updated
- 2025-05-20
Proof-of-concept exploits (4)
- Ridter/CVE-2019-1040250★ · 2021-06-18
- Ridter/CVE-2019-1040-dcpwn33★ · 2021-06-18
- lazaars/UltraRealy_with_CVE-2019-104020★ · 2019-06-19
- JonyFilc/PrintSpoofer-ReflectiveDLL