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CVE-2022-26923

Active Directory Domain Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

VendormicrosoftPublishedMay 10, 2022SourceNVDWeaknessCWE-295
Act now

Actively exploited in the wild. Patch or mitigate immediately — don't wait for a maintenance window.

⚙ WeaponizedMetasploit module availableopen ↗
Severity
High · 8.8
CVSS base score
Exploitation
In the wild
CISA KEV · Metasploit
Predicted risk
84% model
EPSS forecast — overtaken by confirmed exploitation
Exposure
Remote (auth)
Remotely exploitable, but needs an account
01

What's the risk?

An attacker with a basic user account, remotely over the network, with no user interaction, can fully compromise the system — steal data, tamper with it and take it offline.

Active Directory Domain Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

How it's exploitedMITRE ATT&CK · inferred from weakness & vector
Initial Access
T1190Exploit Public-Facing Application
Defense Evasion
T1553Subvert Trust Controls

Inferred from the weakness type (CWE) and how the flaw is reached — the techniques an attacker would chain to exploit this. Real-world corroboration appears here as threat intel is folded in.

02

Who's exploiting it?

Corroborated threat activity referencing this CVE — with source and confidence, not inference.

Confirmed exploited in the wild. CISA KEV · catalogued Aug 18, 2022

Named threat actors and observed ATT&CK techniques appear here as intel feeds are folded in — the ATT&CK chain above stays inferred until then.

03

Are we affected?

14
  • Affectedmicrosoft · windows_10_1507all versions
  • Affected
microsoft · windows_10_1607
all versions
  • Affectedmicrosoft · windows_10_1809all versions
  • Affectedmicrosoft · windows_10_1909all versions
  • Affectedmicrosoft · windows_10_20h2all versions
  • Affectedmicrosoft · windows_10_21h1all versions
  • Affectedmicrosoft · windows_10_21h2all versions
  • Affectedmicrosoft · windows_11_21h2all versions
  • Affectedmicrosoft · windows_8.1all versions
  • Affectedmicrosoft · windows_rt_8.1all versions
  • Affectedmicrosoft · windows_server_2012r2
  • Affectedmicrosoft · windows_server_2016all versions
  • Affectedmicrosoft · windows_server_2019all versions
  • Affectedmicrosoft · windows_server_2022all versions
  • 04

    What to do

    Generated by Wavense from the CVE record — an immediate mitigation and the permanent fix.

    1. !

      Mitigate now

      To mitigate risk, enable Extended Protection for Authentication (EPA) on Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) web enrollment and certificatenamemapping services. Implement strong NTLM relay protections across the domain, such as enforcing SMB signing where practical and monitoring for NTLM authentication to critical services like AD CS. Restrict network access to AD CS to only necessary administrative machines and users.

    2. ✓

      Permanent fix

      The permanent resolution is to apply the security updates released by Microsoft for CVE-2022-26923. Administrators should prioritize patching all affected Active Directory Domain Controllers and Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) servers. These updates address the underlying vulnerability by securing how AD CS processes authentication and certificate requests.

    Technical details— weakness, CVSS vector & calculator, related CVEs

    Business impact

    An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to elevate privileges from a standard domain user to a domain administrator. This grants them full control over the Active Directory domain, allowing for arbitrary code execution, data exfiltration, and the creation of new privileged accounts. The business consequences include severe data breaches, complete network compromise, and significant operational disruption.

    Weakness

    1
    CWE-295Common Weakness Enumeration · MITRE definition

    CVSS 3.1 details

    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    0.0
    / 10.0 base
    High severity
    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Exploitability metrics
    Attack VectorAV
    Remotely exploitable across a network
    Attack ComplexityAC
    No special conditions required
    Privileges RequiredPR
    Basic user privileges
    User InteractionUI
    No user participation needed
    Impact metrics
    ScopeS
    Impact confined to the vulnerable component
    ConfidentialityC
    Total loss of confidentiality
    IntegrityI
    Total loss of integrity
    AvailabilityA
    Total loss of availability

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    High severity
    Key facts
    CVE ID
    CVE-2022-26923
    Published
    May 10, 2022
    Last modified
    Oct 30, 2025
    CVSS
    8.8 (v3.1)
    EPSS
    83.50%
    In CISA KEV
    Yes
    Confidence
    100/100
    Weakness
    CWE-295
    Timeline
    1. May 10, 2022Published to NVDNVD
    2. Oct 30, 2025Record last modifiedNVD
    3. Aug 22, 2026AI analysis generatedWavense
    View on NVD