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CVE Number Vulnerability Product Severity Date
CVE-2022-22717 Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Windows 11 Important 15-02-2022

Technical Information

Brief overview of the risk:

This is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Windows print spooler which stems due to a race condition bug. The attacker has to win the race condition to exploit this vulnerability. On successful exploitation a remote unauthenticated attacker can gain administrative access.

Further information on this vulnerability is available at : CVE-2022-22717

Affected Software

Windows 10 Version 1809 for 32-bit Systems,
Windows 10 Version 1809 for x64-based Systems,
Windows 10 Version 1809 for ARM64-based Systems,
Windows Server 2019,
Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation),
Windows 10 Version 1909 for 32-bit Systems,
Windows 10 Version 1909 for x64-based Systems,
Windows 10 Version 1909 for ARM64-based Systems,
Windows 10 Version 21H1 for x64-based Systems,
Windows 10 Version 21H1 for ARM64-based Systems,
Windows 10 Version 21H1 for 32-bit Systems,
Windows Server 2022,
Windows Server 2022 (Server Core installation),
Windows Server 2022 Azure Edition Core Hotpatch,
Windows 10 Version 20H2 for x64-based Systems,
Windows 10 Version 20H2 for 32-bit Systems,
Windows 10 Version 20H2 for ARM64-based Systems,
Windows Server, version 20H2 (Server Core Installation),
Windows 11 for x64-based Systems,
Windows 11 for ARM64-based Systems,
Windows 10 Version 21H2 for 32-bit Systems,
Windows 10 Version 21H2 for ARM64-based Systems,
Windows 10 Version 21H2 for x64-based Systems,
Windows 10 for 32-bit Systems,
Windows 10 for x64-based Systems,
Windows 10 Version 1607 for 32-bit Systems,
Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems,
Windows Server 2016,
Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation),
Windows 7 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 1,
Windows 7 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1,
Windows 8.1 for 32-bit systems,
Windows 8.1 for x64-based systems,
Windows RT 8.1,
Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 2,
Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 2 (Server Core installation),
Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 2,
Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 2 (Server Core installation),
Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1,
Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1 (Server Core installation),
Windows Server 2012,
Windows Server 2012 (Server Core installation),
Windows Server 2012 R2,
Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Core installation)