Summary
Microsoft Windows Print Spooler contains an unspecified vulnerability due to the Windows Print Spooler service improperly performing privileged file operations. Successful exploitation allows an attacker to perform remote code execution with SYSTEM privileges. The vulnerability is also known under the moniker of PrintNightmare.
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Windows
- Added to KEV
- Nov 3, 2021
- Remediation due
- May 3, 2022 (US federal deadline)
- Ransomware use
- Known
- Weakness
- CWE-269
- EPSS
- 99.8% 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