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High MSRC-CVE-2022-41115 1 CVE

Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Update Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published Dec 13, 2022 · Updated Dec 21, 2022 · Revision 2

Vendor: Microsoft

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, privileges required is high (PR:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to compromise admin credentials on the device.

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 prepare the target environment to improve exploit reliability.

What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could allow the Edge Updater to run as SYSTEM privileges.

What is the version information for this release?
108.0.1462.41: 108.0.1462.41, 12/5/2022: 12/5/2022, 108.0.5359.94: 108.0.5359.94

Security updates
108.0.1462.42 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/DeployEdge/microsoft-edge-relnotes-security

Vulnerabilities 1

Revision history

  1. #2

    Added an acknowledgement. This is an informational change only.

  2. #1

    Information published.

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