CVE-2022-37971

Microsoft Windows Defender Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 7.1 High
Published: Oct 11, 2022
Updated: Jan 2, 2025
Reserved: Aug 8, 2022

Description

Microsoft Windows Defender Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.1 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C	microsoft

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Microsoft Malware Protection EngineMicrosoft	1.1.0.0 to before 1.1.19700.2Affected

References

Microsoft Windows Defender Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilityvendor-advisory
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2022-37971
https://www.withsecure.com/en/support/security-advisories/cve-2022-37971

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