Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less 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.
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.
Security updates
5.15.62.1 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/kernel-release-notes
1.4.2.12122 LTS — https://github.com/Azure/iotedge-eflow/releases
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.0
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Revision history
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#2
Updated the build numbers. This is an informational update only.
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2022-38014 Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-38014
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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