CVE-2019-1170

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2019-1170. PoCs published by Google Security Research.

AI-analyzed exploit summary The exploit leverages the FSCTL_SET_REPARSE_POINT_EX control code in NTFS to bypass sandbox mitigations, allowing a sandboxed application to set arbitrary mount points. This can facilitate further attacks, such as arbitrary file drops.

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when reparse points are created by sandboxed processes allowing sandbox escape. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could use the sandbox escape to elevate privileges on an affected system. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system, and then run a specially crafted application to take control over the affected system. The security update addresses the vulnerability by preventing sandboxed processes from creating reparse points targeting inaccessible files.