CVE-2022-37974: Windows Mixed Reality Developer Tools Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Overview

Severity

Medium (CVSS 6.5)

CVSS Vector

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

Category

Information Disclosure

Exploit Status

Not Exploited

Exploitation Likelihood

More Likely

Patch Tuesday

2022-Oct

Released

2022-10-11

EPSS Score

10.81% (percentile: 93.4%)

FAQ

What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability? The type of information that could be disclosed if an attacker successfully exploited this vulnerability is unauthorized file system access - reading from the file system. How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability? An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by convincing a user to click a specially crafted link. The vulnerable system could then send attacker-specified files, to which the targeted user has access, across the network to a remote system.

Affected Products (4)

Windows

• Windows 10 Version 21H1 for x64-based Systems
• Windows 11 version 21H2 for x64-based Systems
• Windows 10 Version 21H2 for x64-based Systems
• Windows 11 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems

Security Updates (3)

• 5018410
• 5018418
• 5018427

Acknowledgments

Microsoft Offensive Research & Security Engineering (MORSE)

Revision History

• 2022-10-11: Information published.