CVE-2010-1891

medium
Published 2010-09-15 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.9

Description

The Client/Server Runtime Subsystem (aka CSRSS) in the Win32 subsystem in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3 and Server 2003 SP2, when a Chinese, Japanese, or Korean locale is enabled, does not properly allocate memory for transactions, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "CSRSS Local Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

windows Windows Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
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References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.