Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-24767

High

Published: 12 April 2022

Published
12 April 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0169 82.7th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-24767 is a high-severity Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CWE-427) vulnerability in Microsoft Visual Studio 2019. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 17.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

GitHub: Git for Windows' uninstaller vulnerable to DLL hijacking when run under the SYSTEM user account.

CWE(s)
CWE-427

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

microsoft
visual studio 2017
15.0 — 15.9.46
microsoft
visual studio 2019
16.0 — 16.7.27 · 16.8 — 16.9.19 · 16.10 — 16.11.12
microsoft
visual studio 2022
17.0 — 17.0.8 · 17.1.0 — 17.1.4
git for windows project
git for windows
≤ 2.35.2

Mitigating Controls

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

References