CVE-2019-0938An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Microsoft Edge that could allow an attacker to escape from the AppContainer sandbox in…
- 9.0CriticalCVSS base score
- 3.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 11% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Microsoft Edge that could allow an attacker to escape from the AppContainer sandbox in the browser, aka 'Microsoft Edge Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.0 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.4% · top 11% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.0.
Affected products
- affected Windows 10 for 32-bit Systems
- affected Windows 10 for x64-based Systems
- affected Windows Server 2016
- affected Windows 10 Version 1607 for 32-bit Systems
- affected Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems
- affected Windows 10 Version 1703 for 32-bit Systems
- affected Windows 10 Version 1703 for x64-based Systems
- affected Windows 10 Version 1709 for 32-bit Systems
- affected Windows 10 Version 1709 for x64-based Systems
- affected Windows 10 Version 1803 for 32-bit Systems
- affected Windows 10 Version 1803 for x64-based Systems
- affected Windows 10 Version 1803 for ARM64-based Systems
- affected Windows 10 Version 1809 for 32-bit Systems
- affected Windows 10 Version 1809 for x64-based Systems
- affected Windows 10 Version 1809 for ARM64-based Systems
- affected Windows Server 2019
- affected Windows 10 Version 1709 for ARM64-based Systems
Microsoft · Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 Version 1903 for 32-bit Systems
- affected unspecified
Microsoft · Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 Version 1903 for x64-based Systems
- affected unspecified
Microsoft · Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 Version 1903 for ARM64-based Systems
- affected unspecified
References
References1
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-0938 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2019-1673 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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