Summary
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists when Windows improperly handles calls to Win32k.sys. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run remote code in the security context of the local system.
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Win32k
- Added to KEV
- May 23, 2022
- Remediation due
- Jun 13, 2022 (US federal deadline)
- Ransomware use
- Not known
- EPSS
- 3.0% 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