CVE-2022-35836
vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

Microsoft WDAC OLE DB provider for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2022-35836) was disclosed on September 13, 2022. This vulnerability affects Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server components and is part of a group of similar vulnerabilities including CVE-2022-34731, CVE-2022-34733, CVE-2022-35834, CVE-2022-35835, and CVE-2022-35840 (NVD, CVE).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 8.8 (HIGH) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H. This indicates that the vulnerability is network-accessible, requires low attack complexity, needs no privileges, but does require user interaction (NVD).

Impact

If successfully exploited, this vulnerability could allow an attacker to achieve remote code execution with high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected system, as indicated by the CVSS scoring (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Microsoft has released security updates to address this vulnerability. Users are advised to apply the appropriate patches through Microsoft's update mechanisms (Microsoft).

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