CVE-2022-35766CriticalCVSS 8.1

Windows Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Published
August 9, 2022
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2022-35766 →

📋 Description

According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability? Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to win a race condition.

How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability? An unauthenticated attacker could send a specially crafted protocol message to a Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) server, which could lead to remote code execution (RCE) on the RAS server machine.

🎯 Affected products18

  • Windows 10 Version 1809 for 32-bit Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 1809 for ARM64-based Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 1809 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 20H2 for 32-bit Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 20H2 for ARM64-based Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 21H1 for 32-bit Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 21H1 for ARM64-based Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 21H1 for x64-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 11 version 21H2 for ARM64-based Systems
  • Windows 11 version 21H2 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows Server 2019
  • Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)
  • Windows Server 2022
  • Windows Server 2022 (Server Core installation)
  • Windows Server, version 20H2 (Server Core Installation)

✅ Remediation

KB5016623 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.17763.3287 KB5016616 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.19043.1889 KB5016627 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.20348.887 KB5016616 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.19042.1889 KB5016629 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.22000.856 KB5016616 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.19044.1889

🔗 References (9)