microsoft windows-server-2008 CVE-2022-38028 vulnerability in Microsoft Products
Published on October 11, 2022

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Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Vendor Advisory NVD

Known Exploited Vulnerability

This Microsoft Windows Print Spooler Privilege Escalation Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. Microsoft Windows Print Spooler service contains a privilege escalation vulnerability. An attacker may modify a JavaScript constraints file and execute it with SYSTEM-level permissions.

The following remediation steps are recommended / required by May 14, 2024: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2022-38028 is exploitable with local system access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. It has an exploitability score of 1.8 out of four. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.


Products Associated with CVE-2022-38028

You can be notified by stack.watch whenever vulnerabilities like CVE-2022-38028 are published in these products:

Microsoft Windows Server 2008
 
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
 
Microsoft Windows 10
 
Microsoft Windows 8.1
 
Microsoft Windows Server 2016
 
Microsoft Windows 7
 
Microsoft Windows Rt 8 1
 
Microsoft Windows 11
 
Microsoft Windows Server 2019
 
Microsoft Windows Server 2022
 

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