Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-41076

High

Published: 13 December 2022

Published
13 December 2022
Modified
02 January 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 8.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.3402 97.1th percentile
Risk Priority 37 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-41076 is a high-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10. Its CVSS base score is 8.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 2.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Deeper analysis

CVE-2022-41076 is a remote code execution vulnerability affecting PowerShell, as indicated by its published description and CVSS 3.1 vector of AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H. The flaw permits an attacker to execute arbitrary code with impacts across confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and the changed scope metric shows that exploitation can affect components beyond the initially vulnerable PowerShell instance.

An authenticated user with low privileges can exploit the issue over a network connection, though the high attack complexity requirement limits the ease of successful attacks. Successful exploitation grants the ability to run code that affects the broader system or environment rather than remaining confined to the PowerShell process.

Microsoft security advisories published at the referenced MSRC URLs provide official guidance and patches for the vulnerability. The current EPSS score of 0.3402, with a recorded peak of 0.3756, reflects moderate exploitation probability without documented evidence of widespread real-world attacks.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

PowerShell 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
powershell
7.2, 7.3
microsoft
windows 10
1607, 1809, 20h2, 21h1, 21h2
microsoft
windows 11
all versions
microsoft
windows 7
all versions
microsoft
windows 8.1
all versions
microsoft
windows rt 8.1
all versions
microsoft
windows server 2008
all versions, r2
microsoft
windows server 2012
all versions, r2
microsoft
windows server 2016
all versions
microsoft
windows server 2019
all versions
+1 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

Mitigating Controls

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

References