MSRC-CVE-2022-44704 — Microsoft Windows System Monitor (Sysmon) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Summary

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

Security updates
14.13 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysmon

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.8

CVE-2022-44704

Microsoft Windows System Monitor (Sysmon) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows System Monitor (Sysmon) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows Sysmon Windows

Dec 13, 2022

Revision history

2022-12-13 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2022-44704 Microsoft Windows System Monitor (Sysmon) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-44704
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