Summary
Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
According to the CVSS metric, a successful exploitation could lead to a scope change (S:C). What does this mean for this vulnerability?
In this case, a successful attack could be performed from a low privilege Hyper-V guest. The attacker could traverse the guest's security boundary to execute code on the Hyper-V host execution environment.
According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to prepare the target environment to improve exploit reliability.
Security updates
10.0.17763.2565 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5010351
10.0.18363.2094 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5010345
10.0.19043.1526 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5010342
10.0.20348.524 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5010354
10.0.20348.525 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5010456
10.0.22000.493 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5010386
10.0.10240.19204 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5010358
10.0.14393.4946 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5010359
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.9
Windows Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Windows Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2022-21995 Windows Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-21995
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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