CVE-2022-21838

EUVD-2022-26994 · Published Jan 11, 2022

Windows Cleanup Manager Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Technologies

Microsoft Windows 7Microsoft Windows Server 2008Microsoft Windows Server 2012Microsoft Windows 10Microsoft Windows 8.1Microsoft Windows Server 2019Microsoft Windows 11Microsoft Windows Server 2016Microsoft Windows Server

Weaknesses

CWE-59

CVSS scores

v3.17.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
v2.07.2AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

MITRE ATT&CK

Inferred

Where this vulnerability fits in an attack

ReconImpact

Execution Persistence Privilege Escalation Stealth

T1068Exploitation for Privilege Escalation T1027.006HTML Smuggling T1027.009Embedded Payloads T1547.009Shortcut Modification T1564.009Resource Forking T1574.005Executable Installer File Permissions Weakness T1574.010Services File Permissions Weakness

References

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-21838
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2022-21838
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-22-049/

Potentially impacted assets

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