Summary
Stack-based buffer overflow in the RtlQueryRegistryValues function in win32k.sys in Microsoft Windows allows local users to gain privileges, and bypass the User Account Control (UAC) feature.
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Windows
- Added to KEV
- Mar 28, 2022
- Remediation due
- Apr 21, 2022 (US federal deadline)
- Ransomware use
- Not known
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- EPSS
- 8.7% 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