MSRC-CVE-2022-44671 — Windows Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Summary

Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation More 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.

Security updates
10.0.17763.3770 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5021237
10.0.19043.2364 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5021233
10.0.20348.1366 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5021249
10.0.22000.1335 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5021234
10.0.22621.993 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5021255

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.8

CVE-2022-44671

Windows Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Windows Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation) Windows 10 Version 1809 Windows

Dec 13, 2022

Revision history

2022-12-13 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2022-44671 Windows Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-44671
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