CVE-2022-30215: Active Directory Federation Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Overview

Severity

High (CVSS 7.5)

CVSS Vector

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

Category

Elevation of Privilege

Exploit Status

Not Exploited

Exploitation Likelihood

More Likely

Patch Tuesday

2022-Jul

Released

2022-07-12

EPSS Score

5.08% (percentile: 89.8%)

FAQ

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 take additional actions prior to exploitation to prepare the target environment. What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability? An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain domain administrator privileges.

Affected Products (7)

Windows

• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)
• Windows Server 2022
• Windows Server 2022 (Server Core installation)
• Windows Server, version 20H2 (Server Core Installation)
• Windows Server 2016
• Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation)

Security Updates (4)

• 5015811
• 5015827
• 5015807
• 5015808

Acknowledgments

National Security Agency

Revision History

• 2022-07-12: Information published.