Microsoft Windows Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
A local elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in how splwow64.exe handles certain calls. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could elevate privileges on an affected system from low-integrity to medium-integrity.
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Windows
- CVSS
- 7.8
- EPSS (exploit probability)
- 2.4%
- Status
- kev
- CISA patch-by (BOD 22-01)
- Published
A local elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in how splwow64.exe handles certain calls. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could elevate privileges on an affected system from low-integrity to medium-integrity.
Added to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2022-05-23. Required action per CISA: Apply updates per vendor instructions. Due date: 2022-06-13.
This is an auto-synced KEV catalog record pending a full 0dayNews write-up — see CISA’s KEV catalog and the NVD record linked above for primary sources.