CVE-2022-44679HighCVSS 6.5

Windows Graphics Component Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Published
December 13, 2022
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2022-44679 →

📋 Description

According to the CVSS metric, a successful exploitation could lead to a scope change (S:C). What does this mean for this vulnerability? In this case, a successful attack could be performed from a low privilege AppContainer. The attacker could get unauthorized access to sensitive user data outside of the AppContainer execution environment.

What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability? Exploiting this vulnerability could allow the disclosure of initialized or uninitialized memory in the process heap.

🎯 Affected products35

  • Windows 10 Version 1607 for 32-bit Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems
  • 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 10 Version 22H2 for 32-bit Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 22H2 for ARM64-based Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows 10 for 32-bit Systems
  • Windows 10 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows 11 Version 22H2 for ARM64-based Systems
  • Windows 11 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows 11 version 21H2 for ARM64-based Systems
  • Windows 11 version 21H2 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows 8.1 for 32-bit systems
  • Windows 8.1 for x64-based systems
  • Windows RT 8.1
  • Windows Server 2012
  • Windows Server 2012 (Server Core installation)
  • Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Core installation)
  • Windows Server 2016
  • +5 more not shown

✅ Remediation

KB5021237 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.17763.3770 KB5021233 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.19043.2364 KB5021249 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.20348.1366 KB5021233 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.19042.2364 KB5021234 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.22000.1335 KB5021233 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.19044.2364 KB5021255 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.22621.993 KB5021233 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.19045.2364 KB5021243 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.10240.19624 KB5021235 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.14393.5582 KB5021294 (Monthly Rollup) — fixed build 6.3.9600.20721 KB5021296 (Security Only) — fixed build 6.3.9600.20721 KB5021285 (Monthly Rollup) — fixed build 6.2.9200.24018 KB5021303 (Security Only) — fixed build 6.2.9200.24018

🔗 References (24)