A security researcher has disclosed a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10, tracked as CVE-2022-21882, that allows an attacker with limited access to a device to easily escalate their privileges to those of an administrator.
Privilege escalation vulnerabilities allow attackers to run tasks that require admin rights on the system, create and delete users with any level of access, and even spread across a network with ease.
This vulnerability was patched by Microsoft to correct a 'Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability' that was used as a bypass for a previously patched vulnerability (tracked as CVE-2021-1732).
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