Summary
Impact: Information Disclosure. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?
Exploitation of the vulnerability requires that a user open a specially crafted file.
In an email attack scenario, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending the specially crafted file to the user and convincing the user to open the file., In a web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a website (or leverage a compromised website that accepts or hosts user-provided content) containing a specially crafted file designed to exploit the vulnerability.
An attacker would have no way to force users to visit the website. Instead, an attacker would have to convince users to click a link, typically by way of an enticement in an email or instant message, and then convince them to open the specially crafted file.
What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability?
A successful exploitation of this vulnerability leaks metafile memory values back to an attacker within the browser.
Security updates
10.0.17763.3406 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5017315
10.0.19043.2006 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5017308
10.0.20348.1006 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5017316
10.0.20348.916 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5017392
10.0.22000.978 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5017328
10.0.10240.19444 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5017327
10.0.14393.5356 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5017305
6.1.7601.26115 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5017361
6.1.7601.26115 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5017373
6.3.9600.20571 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5017367
6.3.9600.20571 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5017365
6.0.6003.21666 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5017358
6.0.6003.21666 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5017371
6.2.9200.23865 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5017370
6.2.9200.23865 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5017377
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 6.5
Windows Graphics Component Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Windows Graphics Component Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Revision history
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#2
Updated one or more CVSS scores for the affected products. This is an informational change only.
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2022-35837 Windows Graphics Component Information Disclosure Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-35837
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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