CVE record · CVE-2022-38050

Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVSS 7.8 HighEPSS 0.073 · 94th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: microsoft) at 11 Oct 2022, 00:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Microsoft	Windows 10 Version 1809	affected 10.0.17763.0 to before 10.0.17763.3532 custom
Microsoft	Windows 10 Version 1809	affected 10.0.0 to before 10.0.17763.3532 custom
Microsoft	Windows Server 2019	affected 10.0.17763.0 to before 10.0.17763.3532 custom
Microsoft	Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)	affected 10.0.17763.0 to before 10.0.17763.3532 custom
Microsoft	Windows 10 Version 21H1	affected 10.0.0 to before 10.0.19043.2130 custom
Microsoft	Windows Server 2022	affected 10.0.20348.0 to before 10.0.20348.1129 custom
Microsoft	Windows 10 Version 20H2	affected 10.0.0 to before 10.0.19042.2130 custom
Microsoft	Windows 11 version 21H2	affected 10.0.0 to before 10.0.22000.1098 custom
Microsoft	Windows 10 Version 21H2	affected 10.0.19043.0 to before 10.0.19044.2130 custom
Microsoft	Windows 11 version 22H2	affected 10.0.22621.0 to before 10.0.22621.674 custom

Identifiers: CVE-2022-38050
CNA: microsoft
Tags: Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1809
Microsoft Windows Server 2019
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)
Microsoft Windows 10 Version 21H1
Microsoft Windows Server 2022
Microsoft Windows 10 Version 20H2
Microsoft Windows 11 version 21H2
Microsoft Windows 10 Version 21H2
Published: 11 Oct 2022
Updated: 2 Jan 2025

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.8	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C	CNA (microsoft)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.073, the 94th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 11 Oct 2022. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-38050 vendor-advisory

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.