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CVE-2022-44697 · Windows Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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Severity
Important
Impact
Elevation of Privilege
CVSS
7.8 base · 6.8 temporal
Release
2022-12-13
Signals
Microsoft Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege Exploited: No Publicly disclosed: No Exploitability: Exploitation Less Likely
CWE
No CWE data published.
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Description
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FAQ / Articles
FAQ
Why are there two different impacts in the Security Updates table? An attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability to elevate privileges from a client-side application sandbox in earlier Microsoft operating systems. However, mitigation technologies in later Microsoft operating systems make this more difficult. For this reason, this vulnerability has two different impact ratings.
FAQ
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability? An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.