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Microsoft Patch Tuesday- May 2022

Issued: 
Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
Last Revision: 
Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
Vendor: 
Severity Level: 
Summary: 

Microsoft has released patches for 75 vulnerabilities with eight classified as critical including three zerodays and rest are classified as important. One of the zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2022-26925) have been actively exploited.  

 

In May 2022 Microsoft has fixed problems of Privilege Elevation, Security Feature Bypass, Remote Code Execution, Information Disclosure, Denial of Service and Spoofing Vulnerability.

 

Products patched in this month security update includes- Windows OS and several of its components; the .NET and Visual Studio platforms; Office and its components; Exchange Server; BitLocker; Remote Desktop Client; NTFS; and Microsoft Edge.

 

 

CVE/Vulnerability

                  Description 

CVSS3.0 Score

CVE-2022-21972  

Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

8.1

CVE-2022-21978  

Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

8.2

CVE-2022-22012  

Windows LDAP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

9.8

CVE-2022-22017  

Remote Desktop Client Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

8.8

CVE-2022-22713 

Windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability

5.6

CVE-2022-23270  

Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

8.1

CVE-2022-26923  

Active Directory Domain Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

8.8

CVE-2022-26925

Windows LSA Spoofing Vulnerability

8.1

CVE-2022-26931  

Windows Kerberos Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

7.5

CVE-2022-26937  

Windows Network File System Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

9.8

CVE-2022-29104

Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

7.8

CVE-2022-29130  

Windows LDAP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

9.8

CVE-2022-29132  

Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities

7.8

CVE-2022-29972  

Insight Software: Magnitude Simba Amazon Redshift ODBC Drive

N/A

CVE-2022-30138

Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

 

7.8

 

Table 1: Vulnerability details 

 

 

Security Update Types

Affected Product(s)

 Security Updates

.NET and Visual Studio

Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based)

Microsoft Exchange Server

Microsoft Graphics Component

Microsoft Local Security Authority Server (lsasrv)

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office Excel

Microsoft Office SharePoint

Microsoft Windows ALPC

Remote Desktop Client

Role: Windows Fax Service

Role: Windows Hyper-V

Self-hosted Integration Runtime

Tablet Windows User Interface

Visual Studio

Visual Studio Code

Windows Active Directory

Windows Address Book

Windows Authentication Methods

Windows BitLocker

Windows Cluster Shared Volume (CSV)

Windows Failover Cluster Automation Server

Windows Kerberos

Windows Kernel

Windows LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

Windows Media

Windows Network File System

Windows NTFS

Windows Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol

Windows Print Spooler Components

Windows Push Notifications

Windows Remote Access Connection Manager

Windows Remote Desktop

Windows Remote Procedure Call Runtime

Windows Server Service

Windows Storage Spaces Controller

Windows WLAN Auto Config Service

 

Table 2: Vulnerable versions

 

 

Recommendation: 

Microsoft has released patches to address these vulnerabilities, organizations are encouraged to apply patches as soon as possible.