Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-22012

Critical

Published: 10 May 2022

Published
10 May 2022
Modified
02 January 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.1349 94.4th percentile
Risk Priority 28 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-22012 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 5.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Deeper analysis

CVE-2022-22012 is a remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) component. It carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8 and was published on 10 May 2022.

An unauthenticated attacker can exploit the flaw over the network with no user interaction required, resulting in full control over confidentiality, integrity, and availability on the affected system.

Microsoft security guidance and patches for the issue are published at the referenced MSRC URLs. The associated EPSS score has remained flat at a peak of 0.1349 with no material post-disclosure rise.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Windows Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

microsoft
windows 10
1607, 1809, 1909, 20h2, 21h1
microsoft
windows 11
all versions
microsoft
windows 7
all versions
microsoft
windows 8.1
all versions
microsoft
windows server
2022
microsoft
windows server 2008
r2, sp2
microsoft
windows server 2012
all versions, r2
microsoft
windows server 2016
all versions
microsoft
windows server 2019
all versions

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References