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CVE-2022-22031:
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Overview
Windows Credential Guard Domain-joined Public Key Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CVE-2022-22031) was identified and disclosed in December 2021. This vulnerability affects various versions of Microsoft Windows, including Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server editions (Rapid7).
Technical details
The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS severity score of 7.0, indicating a high severity level. The attack vector is local (AV:L), with low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring no authentication (Au:N), and potentially impacting confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:C/I:C/A:C) (Rapid7).
Impact
This vulnerability could allow an attacker to gain elevated privileges in Windows systems that use Credential Guard in domain-joined environments. The successful exploitation could lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected systems (Rapid7).
Mitigation and workarounds
Microsoft has released security updates to address this vulnerability across multiple Windows versions. The fixes are available through various KB updates including KB5015832 (Windows 10 1507), KB5015808 (Windows 10 1607), KB5015811 (Windows 10 1809), KB5015807 (Windows 10 20H2/21H1/21H2), KB5015814 (Windows 11 21H2), and KB5015827 (Windows Server 2022) (Rapid7).
Additional resources
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