Summary
Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Critical. 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 win a race condition.
How could an attacker exploit the vulnerability?
To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to send a specially crafted malicious PPTP packet to a PPTP server. This could result in remote code execution on the server side.
Security updates
10.0.17763.3532 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5018419
10.0.19043.2130 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5018410
10.0.20348.1129 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5018421
10.0.22000.1098 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5018418
10.0.22621.674 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5018427
10.0.10240.19507 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5018425
10.0.14393.5427 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5018411
6.1.7601.26174 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5018454
6.1.7601.26174 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5018479
6.3.9600.20625 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5018474
6.3.9600.20625 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5018476
6.2.9200.23920 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5018457
6.2.9200.23920 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5018478
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.1
Windows Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Windows Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2022-38000 Windows Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-38000
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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