Summary
Microsoft Windows BITS is vulnerable to to a privilege elevation vulnerability if it improperly handles symbolic links. An actor can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with system-level privileges.
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Windows
- Added to KEV
- Jan 28, 2022
- Remediation due
- Jul 28, 2022 (US federal deadline)
- Ransomware use
- Known
- Weakness
- CWE-269, CWE-59
- EPSS
- 42.5% 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