CVE-2022-26923

CVE-2022-26923 is a high-severity (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability in Microsoft Active Directory. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on August 18, 2022, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by September 8, 2022. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. Microsoft has 390 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 117 of them linked to ransomware.

Active Directory Domain Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

• https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-26923
• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2022-26923
• https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2022-26923