CVE Record
[ HIGH ]CVE-2022-21882
Microsoft Win32k Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Microsoft Win32k contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows for privilege escalation.
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Win32k
- CVSS
- 7.0
- EPSS (exploit probability)
- 54.6%
- Status
- kevransomware use
- CISA patch-by (BOD 22-01)
- Published
Microsoft Win32k contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows for privilege escalation.
Added to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2022-02-04. Required action per CISA: Apply updates per vendor instructions. Due date: 2022-02-18.
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.