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 this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.
According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?
The user would have to click on a specially crafted URL which downloads a malicious file that connects to a V4 print server controlled by the attacker.
Security updates
10.0.17763.3165 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5015811
10.0.19043.1826 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5015807
10.0.20348.825 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5015827
10.0.22000.795 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5015814
10.0.10240.19360 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5015832
10.0.14393.5246 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5015808
6.3.9600.20478 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5015874
6.3.9600.20478 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5015877
6.2.9200.23771 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5015863
6.2.9200.23771 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5015875
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 6.8
Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Revision history
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#2
Added FAQ information. This is an informational change only.
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2022-22041 Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-22041
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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