CVE-2022-29133: Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Overview

Severity

High (CVSS 8.8)

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Category

Elevation of Privilege

Exploit Status

Not Exploited

Exploitation Likelihood

Less Likely

Patch Tuesday

2022-May

Released

2022-05-10

EPSS Score

0.28% (percentile: 51.3%)

FAQ

According to the CVSS metric, successful exploitation could lead to a scope change (S:C). What does this mean for this vulnerability? In this case, a successful attack could be performed from a low privilege AppContainer. The attacker could elevate their privileges and execute code or access resources at a higher integrity level than that of the AppContainer execution environment.

Affected Products (2)

Windows

• Windows 11 version 21H2 for x64-based Systems
• Windows 11 version 21H2 for ARM64-based Systems

Security Updates (1)

• 5013943

Acknowledgments

Anonymous

Revision History

• 2022-05-10: Information published.