CVE-2018-8599

At a glance

Severity: Not available
EPSS: EPSS 1.00 % · percentile 63 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2018-12-12
Updated: 2024-08-05
Assigner: microsoft
NVD status: Modified

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service improperly impersonates certain file operations, aka "Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability." This affects Microsoft Visual Studio, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016, Windows 10, Windows 10 Servers.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.0	HIGH 7.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0	MEDIUM 4.6	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-273

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2018-20214
GCVE · GCVE-0-2018-8599

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2018-AVI-598 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Microsoft · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2018-AVI-596 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Microsoft Windows · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio:2015:update3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2017:15.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1607:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1703:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1709:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1803:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1809:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2016:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2016:1709:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2016:1803:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2019:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio	affected 2015 Update 3 ; affected 2017 ; affected 2017 version 15.9
Microsoft · Windows Server 2019	affected (Server Core installation)
Microsoft · Windows Server 2016	affected (Server Core installation)
Microsoft · Windows 10	affected 32-bit Systems ; affected Version 1607 for 32-bit Systems ; affected Version 1607 for x64-based Systems ; affected Version 1703 for 32-bit Systems ; affected Version 1703 for x64-based Systems ; affected Version 1709 for 32-bit Systems
Microsoft · Windows 10 Servers	affected version 1709 (Server Core Installation) ; affected version 1803 (Server Core Installation)

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD