Summary
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists when Windows Error Reporting manager improperly handles hard links. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could overwrite a targeted file leading to an elevated status.
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Windows
- Added to KEV
- Mar 15, 2022
- Remediation due
- Apr 5, 2022 (US federal deadline)
- Ransomware use
- Known
- Weakness
- CWE-59
- EPSS
- 3.5% 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