MSRC-CVE-2022-37954 — DirectX Graphics 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
10.0.17763.3406 — 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

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.8

CVE-2022-37954 EPSS 46%

DirectX Graphics Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

DirectX Graphics Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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

Sep 13, 2022

Revision history

2022-09-13 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2022-37954 DirectX Graphics Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-37954
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