CVE-2022-24483
Published: 15 April 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-24483 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 9.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
CVE-2022-24483 is a Windows Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability affecting the Windows operating system kernel. It was published on 2022-04-15 and assigned a CVSS 3.1 score of 5.5 reflecting local attack vector, low attack complexity, low privileges required, and high confidentiality impact with no integrity or availability effects.
An attacker with local access and low privileges can exploit the flaw to read sensitive information from kernel memory without user interaction.
Microsoft security advisories referenced at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-24483 address patches and mitigation guidance. The associated EPSS score has remained flat at a peak and current value of 0.0589.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-29364
Vulnerability details
Windows Kernel Information Disclosure 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.