MSRC-CVE-2022-22045 — Windows.Devices.Picker.dll Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Summary

Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.

Details

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 win a race condition.

What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.

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

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.8

CVE-2022-22045

Windows.Devices.Picker.dll Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Windows.Devices.Picker.dll Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation) Windows 10 Version 1809 Windows

Jul 12, 2022

Revision history

2022-07-12 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2022-22045 Windows.Devices.Picker.dll Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-22045
Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss