Summary
Impact: Remote Code Execution. 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 prepare the target environment to improve exploit reliability.
According to the CVSS metric, privileges required is low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
To exploit this vulnerability the attacker would need to have been granted permissions to the vulnerable share with EFS enabled to which they send a specially crafted malicious request.
Security updates
10.0.17763.3046 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5014692
10.0.19043.1766 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5014699
10.0.20348.770 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5014678
10.0.20348.770 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5014677
10.0.22000.739 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5014697
10.0.14393.5192 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5014702
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.5
Windows Encrypting File System (EFS) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Windows Encrypting File System (EFS) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Revision history
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#2
Added an FAQ. This is an information change only.
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2022-30145 Windows Encrypting File System (EFS) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-30145
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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