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CVSS
High

CVE-2022-26923

PUBLISHED

Active Directory Domain Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Exploited in the wild Remote Low complexity No user interaction
Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Windows 10 Version 1809, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation), Windows 10 Version 1909, Windows 10 Version 21H1, Windows Server 2022, Windows 10 Version 20H2, Windows Server version 20H2, Windows 11 version 21H2, Windows 10 Version 21H2, Windows 10 Version 1507, Windows 10 Version 1607, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation), Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Core installation)
Published
May 10, 2022
EPSS
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Description

Active Directory Domain Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

windows cisa microsoft nessus_scanner

CVSS scores

CVSS v3.1 8.8 High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Exploitation status

Exploited in the wild

Recorded 2022-08-18 00:00:00 UTC · Source

SSVC decision points

Exploitation
active
Automatable
No
Technical impact
total

References

Known exploited vulnerability sources

Catalogues that list this CVE as a known exploited vulnerability.

Source Added
CISA Aug 18, 2022

Scanner integrations

Scanner Reference Detected
Nessus https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/160938 Jun 02, 2025

Potential proof of concepts

These PoCs are unverified and could contain malware. Use at your own risk.

Gh-Badr/CVE-2022-26923

github · Created 2023-11-28 16:13:36 UTC · 1 stars

A proof of concept exploiting CVE-2022-26923.

lsecqt/CVE-2022-26923-Powershell-POC

github · Created 2022-08-17 21:13:49 UTC · 17 stars

A powershell poc to load and automatically run Certify and Rubeus from memory.

LudovicPatho/CVE-2022-26923_AD-Certificate-Services

github · Created 2022-05-14 09:27:06 UTC · 44 stars

The vulnerability allowed a low-privileged user to escalate privileges to domain administrator in a default Active Directory environment with the Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) server role installed.

r1skkam/TryHackMe-CVE-2022-26923

github · Created 2022-05-12 02:31:50 UTC · 6 stars

Walkthrough on the exploitation of CVE-2022-26923, a vulnerability in AD Certificate Services

Timeline

  • CVE ID Reserved

  • CVE Published to Public

  • Added to KEVIntel

  • Detected by Nessus