CVE-2022-41125
Windows CNG Key Isolation Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- microsoft
Description
Windows CNG Key Isolation Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Microsoft Windows CNG Key Isolation Service Privilege Escalation Vulnerability.
- Added
- 8 Nov 2022
- Fix due (US federal)
- 9 Dec 2022
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| microsoftCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.0% · top 12% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
- Elevation of Privilege
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-787 and its CVEs
Affected products
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 1507
- affected 10.0.10240.0 – < 10.0.10240.19567
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 1607
- affected 10.0.14393.0 – < 10.0.14393.5501
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 1809
- affected 10.0.17763.0 – < 10.0.17763.3650
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 1809
- affected 10.0.0 – < 10.0.17763.3650
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 20H2
- affected 10.0.0 – < 10.0.19042.2251
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 21H1
- affected 10.0.0 – < 10.0.19043.2251
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 21H2
- affected 10.0.19043.0 – < 10.0.19044.2251
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 22H2
- affected 10.0.19045.0 – < 10.0.19045.2251
Microsoft · Windows 11 version 21H2
- affected 10.0.0 – < 10.0.22000.1219
Microsoft · Windows 11 version 22H2
- affected 10.0.22621.0 – < 10.0.22621.819
- affected 6.3.0 – < 6.3.9600.20671
Microsoft · Windows Server 2012
- affected 6.2.9200.0 – < 6.2.9200.23968
Microsoft · Windows Server 2012 (Server Core installation)
- affected 6.2.9200.0 – < 6.2.9200.23968
Microsoft · Windows Server 2012 R2
- affected 6.3.9600.0 – < 6.3.9600.20671
Microsoft · Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Core installation)
- affected 6.3.9600.0 – < 6.3.9600.20671
Microsoft · Windows Server 2016
- affected 10.0.14393.0 – < 10.0.14393.5501
Microsoft · Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation)
- affected 10.0.14393.0 – < 10.0.14393.5501
Microsoft · Windows Server 2019
- affected 10.0.17763.0 – < 10.0.17763.3650
Microsoft · Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)
- affected 10.0.17763.0 – < 10.0.17763.3650
Microsoft · Windows Server 2022
- affected 10.0.20348.0 – < 10.0.20348.1249
References (2)
- Windows CNG Key Isolation Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisorypatchx_transferred
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2022-41125 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2022-41125)Record last updated .