Vulnerability · Published Dec 20, 2022 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2022-42046
High 7.8
In plain English
A high-severity privilege mismanagement in the affected software. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 42% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 58.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack tooling1Public PoC
Official description
wfshbr64.sys and wfshbr32.sys specially crafted IOCTL allows arbitrary user to perform local privilege escalation
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-269 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H