CVE-2022-35751
Published: 31 May 2023
Summary
CVE-2022-35751 is a high-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Server 2008. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 8.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
CVE-2022-35751 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Windows Hyper-V, published in May 2023 with a CVSS 3.1 score of 7.8 reflecting local access, high attack complexity, low privileges, no user interaction, changed scope, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
A local attacker with low privileges can exploit the flaw to obtain elevated rights on an affected Hyper-V host, potentially compromising the hypervisor boundary and other virtual machines due to the scope change.
Microsoft publishes mitigation details and patches for this issue through its Security Response Center at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-35751. The associated EPSS scores have remained low, moving only from a peak of 0.0726 to a current value of 0.0659.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-38624
Vulnerability details
Windows Hyper-V Elevation of Privilege 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.