CVE-2022-33645
Published: 11 October 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-33645 is a high-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 4.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-33645 is a denial-of-service flaw in the Windows TCP/IP driver. It received a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.5 and was published on 11 October 2022; the affected component is the core networking stack present in supported Windows releases.
An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit the issue over the network with low attack complexity and without user interaction. Successful exploitation results in a high-impact denial of service that leaves confidentiality and integrity unaffected.
Microsoft security advisories at the referenced URLs describe the vulnerability and direct administrators to the corresponding security updates for mitigation. The associated EPSS score reached a peak of 0.1901 and remains at that level, indicating moderate but stable exploitation interest since disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-36688
Vulnerability details
Windows TCP/IP Driver Denial of Service 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.