MSRC-CVE-2022-35761 — Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Summary

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

Details

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
10.0.17763.3287 — 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
10.0.14393.5291 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5016622

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.8

CVE-2022-35761

Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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

Aug 9, 2022

Revision history

2022-09-20 #2
Updated one or more CVSS scores for the affected products. This is an informational change only.
2022-08-09 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2022-35761 Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-35761
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