Summary
Impact: Spoofing. Microsoft rating: Critical. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation More Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What is the nature of the spoofing?
An attacker could manipulate an existing public x.509 certificate to spoof their identity and perform actions such as authentication or code signing as the targeted certificate.
Security updates
10.0.17763.3287 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5016623
10.0.19043.1889 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5016616
10.0.20348.887 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5016627
10.0.22000.856 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5016629
10.0.10240.19387 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5016639
10.0.14393.5291 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5016622
6.1.7601.26065 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5016679
6.1.7601.26065 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5016676
6.3.9600.20520 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5016681
6.3.9600.20520 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5016683
6.0.6003.21616 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5016669
6.0.6003.21616 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5016686
6.2.9200.23817 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5016672
6.2.9200.23817 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5016684
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.5CVE-2022-34689 EPSS 38%
Windows CryptoAPI Spoofing Vulnerability
Windows CryptoAPI Spoofing Vulnerability
Revision history
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#1
Information published. This CVE was addressed by updates that were released in August 2022, but the CVE was omitted from the August 2022 Security Updates. This is an informational change only. Customers who have already installed the August 2022 update do not need to take any further action.
References
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CVE-2022-34689 Windows CryptoAPI Spoofing Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-34689
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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