CVE detail
CVE-2022-44698 — Microsoft Defender SmartScreen Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
Published 2022-12-13 · Modified 2022-12-13 · Source kev
HIGH
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.7627
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
99.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
LISTED
CISA KEV
due 2023-01-03
⚠ Actively exploited in the wild — CISA KEV listed 2022-12-13, federal remediation due 2023-01-03. RANSOMWARE
Description
Microsoft Defender SmartScreen contains a security feature bypass vulnerability that could allow an attacker to evade Mark of the Web (MOTW) defenses via a specially crafted malicious file.
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References