Summary
The kernel in Microsoft Windows, when access to 16-bit applications is enabled on a 32-bit x86 platform, does not properly validate certain BIOS calls, which allows local users to gain privileges.
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Windows
- Added to KEV
- Mar 3, 2022
- Remediation due
- Mar 24, 2022 (US federal deadline)
- Ransomware use
- Not known
- Weakness
- CWE-264
- EPSS
- 28.7% as of Nov 12
In the news
- No Asia-Pacific article names this CVE yet.
Linked
Actors named alongside it:
none
Incidents exploiting it:
- none recorded
References