MSRC-CVE-2022-41044 — Windows Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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 this vulnerability?
An unauthenticated attacker could send a specially crafted protocol message to a Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) server, which could lead to remote code execution (RCE) on the RAS server machine.

Security updates
6.1.7601.26221 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5020000
6.1.7601.26221 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5020013
6.0.6003.21768 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5020019
6.0.6003.21768 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5020005

Vulnerabilities 1

High 8.1

CVE-2022-41044

Windows Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Windows Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (Server Core installation) Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Windows

Nov 9, 2022

Revision history

2022-11-08 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2022-41044 Windows Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-41044
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