Authenticated privilege escalation via undisclosed federation flaw
Published Jul 12, 2022 · Updated Jul 8, 2025
Elevation of privilege in Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services allows remote authenticated users to gain higher privileges. Microsoft has not published the affected code path, unsafe operation, or resulting privilege boundary crossed. Exploitation requires low-privilege authenticated network access and additional undisclosed attack conditions.
Summary
What happened
Elevation of privilege in Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services allows remote authenticated users to gain higher privileges. Microsoft has not published the affected code path, unsafe operation, or resulting privilege boundary crossed. Exploitation requires low-privilege authenticated network access and additional undisclosed attack conditions.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-30215
- Published
- Jul 12, 2022
- Updated
- Jul 8, 2025
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Windows Server 2019
- Classifications
- T1068
- Attack vector
- network
- 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=10.0.17763.0 <10.0.17763.3165
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