Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
An attacker would only be able to delete targeted files on a system. They would not gain privileges to view or modify file contents.
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
10.0.19042.1526 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5009543
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
6.1.7601.25860 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5010404
6.1.7601.25860 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5010422
6.3.9600.20269 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5010419
6.3.9600.20269 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5010395
6.0.6003.21374 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5010384
6.0.6003.21372 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5010403
6.2.9200.23605 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5010392
6.2.9200.23605 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5010412
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.1
Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2022-21997 Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-21997
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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