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CVE-2022-21887 · Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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Severity
Important
Impact
Elevation of Privilege
CVSS
7.0 base · 6.1 temporal
Release
2022-01-11
Signals
Windows Win32K Elevation of Privilege Exploited: No Publicly disclosed: No Exploitability: Exploitation More Likely
CWE
No CWE data published.
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Description
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FAQ
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability? A local, authenticated attacker could gain elevated local system or administrator privileges through a vulnerability in the Win32k.sys driver.