CVE-2022-26925
Actively exploited. CVE-2022-26925 is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-07-01) — exploitation has been observed in the wild, and US federal agencies are required to remediate it under BOD 22-01. Treat patching as urgent.
Microsoft Windows Local Security Authority (LSA) contains a spoofing vulnerability where an attacker can coerce the domain controller to authenticate to the attacker using NTLM.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- A spoofing vulnerability allows an attacker to coerce the domain controller to authenticate to them.
- Who is affected
- Users of Microsoft Windows with vulnerable configurations.
- Urgency
- Immediate remediation is necessary due to active exploitation and critical severity.
- Action
- Update to the latest version of Windows.
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Exploitation outlook
- Exploitation confirmedAlready exploited in the wild (CISA KEV) — the prediction phase is over. Patch now. Riskier than 95% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Advisory coverage (1)
- criticalexploitedCVE-2022-26925: Microsoft Windows LSA Spoofing Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2022-07-01
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