Summary
Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation More Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
How can an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
An authenticated attacker could potentially take advantage of this vulnerability to execute malicious code through the Event Log's Remote Procedure Call (RPC) endpoint on the server-side.
According to the CVSS metric, privileges required is low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Any authenticated user could trigger this vulnerability. It does not require admin or other elevated privileges.
What is a Remote Procedure Call?
Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is a communication mechanism that allows computers to communicate with one another over a network. An RPC consists of a procedure identifier, parameters passed to the procedure, and a value returned to the caller (client computer) after the procedure has executed on the remote system (server computer).
See Remote procedure call (RPC) for more information.
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
10.0.22000.556 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5011493
10.0.10240.19235 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5011491
10.0.14393.5006 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5011495
6.3.9600.20303 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5011564
6.3.9600.20303 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5011560
6.3.9600.20296 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5010419
6.2.9200.23645 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5011535
6.2.9200.23639 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5011527
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.8
Windows Event Tracing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Windows Event Tracing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2022-23294 Windows Event Tracing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-23294
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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