Local privilege escalation
Published Jul 12, 2022 · Updated Jul 8, 2025
Elevation of privilege in Windows.Devices.Picker.dll across affected Microsoft Windows releases allows local users to gain elevated rights. Microsoft has not disclosed the faulty operation performed by the picker library or the input that reaches it. Exploitation requires low-privileged local code execution, has high attack complexity, needs no user interaction, and can compromise the host.
Summary
What happened
Elevation of privilege in Windows.Devices.Picker.dll across affected Microsoft Windows releases allows local users to gain elevated rights. Microsoft has not disclosed the faulty operation performed by the picker library or the input that reaches it. Exploitation requires low-privileged local code execution, has high attack complexity, needs no user interaction, and can compromise the host.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-22045
- Published
- Jul 12, 2022
- Updated
- Jul 8, 2025
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Windows 10 Version 1507
- Classifications
- T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jul 12, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jul 8, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=10.0.10240.0 <10.0.10240.19360
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