MSRC-CVE-2022-23288 — Windows DWM Core Library 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.

Security updates
10.0.17763.2686 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5011503
10.0.18363.2158 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5011485
10.0.19043.1586 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5011487
10.0.20348.587 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5011497
10.0.20348.580 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5011580

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.0

CVE-2022-23288

Windows DWM Core Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Windows DWM Core Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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

Mar 9, 2022

Revision history

2022-03-08 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2022-23288 Windows DWM Core Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-23288
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