CVE-2022-41044CriticalCVSS 8.1

Windows Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Published
November 8, 2022
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2022-41044 →

📋 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 products8

  • Windows 7 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 1
  • Windows 7 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1
  • 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 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)

✅ Remediation

KB5020000 (Monthly Rollup) — fixed build 6.1.7601.26221 KB5020013 (Security Only) — fixed build 6.1.7601.26221 KB5020019 (Monthly Rollup) — fixed build 6.0.6003.21768 KB5020005 (Security Only) — fixed build 6.0.6003.21768

🔗 References (9)