Microsoft Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Runtime Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Released: Jan 11, 2022
Last updated: Feb 8, 2022
- Assigning CNA
- Microsoft
- CVE.org link
- CVE-2022-21871
- Impact
- Elevation of Privilege
- Max Severity
- Important
- CVSS Source
- Microsoft
- Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
- Metrics
- CVSS:3.1 7.0 / 6.1Base score metrics: 7.0 / Temporal score metrics: 6.1
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Exploit Code Maturity
Unproven
Remediation Level
Official Fix
Report Confidence
Confirmed
Please see Common Vulnerability Scoring System for more information on the definition of these metrics.
Exploitability
The following table provides an exploitability assessment for this vulnerability at the time of original publication.
- Publicly disclosed
- No
- Exploited
- No
- Exploitability assessment
- Exploitation Less Likely
Acknowledgements
Security Updates
To determine the support lifecycle for your software, see the Microsoft Support Lifecycle.
- 27551.00
- 16.9.17
- 16.7.25
- 15.9.44
- 10.0.14393.4886
- 10.0.14393.4886
- 10.0.14393.4886
- 10.0.14393.4886
- 10.0.10240.19177
- 10.0.10240.19177
- 10.0.19044.1466
- 10.0.19044.1466
- 10.0.19043.1466
- 10.0.22000.434
- 10.0.22000.434
- 10.0.19042.1466
- 10.0.19042.1466
- 10.0.19042.1466
- 10.0.20348.469
- 10.0.20348.469
- 10.0.19043.1466
- 10.0.19043.1466
- 10.0.19043.1466
- 10.0.18363.2037
- 10.0.18363.2037
- 10.0.18363.2037
- 10.0.17763.2452
- 10.0.17763.2452
- 10.0.17763.2452
- 10.0.17763.2452
- 10.0.17763.2452
Disclaimer
Revisions
In the Security Updates table, added the following versions of Visual Studio as they also affected by CVE-2022-21871: Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9, Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.7, Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9, and Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 3. Microsoft strongly recommends that customers running any of these versions of Visual Studio install the updates to be fully protected from the vulnerability. Customers whose systems are configured to receive automatic updates do not need to take any further action.
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