Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-22014

High

Published: 10 May 2022

Published
10 May 2022
Modified
02 January 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.1566 94.9th percentile
Risk Priority 27 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-22014 is a high-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 5.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Deeper analysis

The vulnerability CVE-2022-22014 is a remote code execution flaw affecting the Windows Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) component. It received a CVSS 3.1 score of 8.8 reflecting network attack vector, low attack complexity, and low privileges required.

An authenticated attacker can exploit the issue remotely to obtain full control over confidentiality, integrity, and availability on the target system without user interaction.

Microsoft security guidance and updates for this vulnerability are available through the advisories published at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-22014 and https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2022-22014.

The associated EPSS score has remained flat at a peak of 0.1566 with no material rise after disclosure.

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.

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