Summary
smss.exe debugging subsystem in Microsoft Windows does not properly authenticate programs that connect to other programs, which allows local users to gain administrator or SYSTEM privileges.
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Windows
- Added to KEV
- Mar 3, 2022
- Remediation due
- Mar 24, 2022 (US federal deadline)
- Ransomware use
- Not known
- EPSS
- 4.9% as of Nov 12
In the news
- No Asia-Pacific article names this CVE yet.
Linked
Actors named alongside it:
none
Incidents exploiting it:
- none recorded
References