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High MSRC-CVE-2022-38042 1 CVE

Active Directory Domain Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published Oct 11, 2022 · Updated Dec 13, 2022 · Revision 2

Summary

Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. 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 gather information specific to the environment of the targeted component.

What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain domain administrator privileges.

According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires a user to first elevate the privileges of a compromised machine.

According to the CVSS metric, privileges required is low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
The attacker must have permissions to access the target domain environment to be able to exploit this vulnerability.

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
6.0.6003.21721 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5018450
6.0.6003.21721 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5018446
6.2.9200.23920 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5018457
6.2.9200.23920 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5018478

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Revision history

  1. #2

    Added an FAQ. This is an information change only.

  2. #1

    Information published.

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