CVE-2022-21849
Published: 11 January 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-21849 is a critical-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 3.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
CVE-2022-21849 is a remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Protocol Extensions. The flaw received a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8 and is tracked under NVD-CWE-noinfo, indicating insufficient information in the weakness enumeration.
An unauthenticated attacker can exploit the issue over the network without user interaction to achieve full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability on the affected system. The attack vector requires no privileges and targets the IKE implementation directly.
Microsoft security advisories for CVE-2022-21849 are available at the listed MSRC update guide and portal URLs, which describe the vulnerability and direct administrators to the corresponding security updates. The EPSS score reached a peak of 0.2480 with no subsequent material increase from that level.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-27005
Vulnerability details
Windows Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Protocol Extensions Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.