Summary
Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Critical. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
An authenticated attacker could take advantage of a vulnerability in dxgkrnl.sys to execute an arbitrary pointer dereference in kernel mode.
According to the CVSS metric, privileges required is low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Any authenticated user could trigger this vulnerability. It does not require admin or other elevated privileges.
Security updates
10.0.17763.2452 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5009557
10.0.18363.2037 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5009545
10.0.19043.1466 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5009543
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.8
DirectX Graphics Kernel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
DirectX Graphics Kernel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2022-21912 DirectX Graphics Kernel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-21912
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Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
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Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
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Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss