Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
A locally authenticated attacker could manipulate information on Windows System Monitor (Sysmon) to achieve elevation from local user to SYSTEM admin.
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain administrator privileges.
Security updates
14.11 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysmon
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.8
Microsoft Windows System Monitor (Sysmon) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Microsoft Windows System Monitor (Sysmon) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Revision history
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#2
Corrected the affected product name in the CVE title and in the FAQs. This is an informational change only.
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2022-41120 Microsoft Windows System Monitor (Sysmon) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-41120
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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