Windows Network File System Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2022-26937
Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2022-05-11. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.
- High exploitation likelihood — EPSS 76%
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 9.8
- EG Score
- 9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 79EG Risk 79/100CISA SSVC
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity98% × 45%Exploitation76% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%CISA SSVC: Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high. - EPSS PROB
- 76%
- EPSS %ILE
- 99th
- KEV
- Not listed
CISA SSVCTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
Exploitation public PoC (EG-KEV: elevated) · Automatable unknown (not published for this CVE) · Technical impact total (CVSS ≥ 9.0). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table
Published
May 10, 2022
Last Modified
January 2, 2025
Advisory Details (2)
Auto-updated Oct 2, 2026Security Update Guide - Microsoft Security Response Center
Security Update Guide - Microsoft Security Response Center. Patch available via Microsoft Security Update
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2022-26937Security Update Guide - Microsoft Security Response Center
Security Update Guide - Microsoft Security Response Center. Patch available via Microsoft Security Update
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-26937Vendor Advisories for CVE-2022-26937(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
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Publicly available exploits
(3 references)Working exploit code is in the public domain (3 GitHub PoCs). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly — public PoCs typically lead to mass-exploitation within 24-72 hours.
- GitHub PoCMalwareman007/CVE-2022-26937First seen Oct 7, 2022
POC Of CVE-2022-26937
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoComair2084/CVE-2022-26937First seen Jun 17, 2022
Windows Network File System Crash PoC
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCcorelight/CVE-2022-26937First seen May 11, 2022
A Zeek package to detect CVE-2022-26937, a vulnerability in the Network Lock Manager (NLM) protocol in Windows NFS server.
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