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CVE-2022-23301

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-23301 is a Remote Code Execution vulnerability affecting Microsoft HEVC Video Extensions. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), it requires user interaction and local access, but can lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not actively exploited (KEV: No) and lacking public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB: None), it garnered some community discussion and media coverage during the March 2022 Patch Tuesday.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.0.50361.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:hevc_video_extensions:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.21%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0221 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 11,621 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: HEVC Video ExtensionFixed in: 1.0.50361.1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: HEVC Video ExtensionsFixed in: 1.0.50361.0

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2022-Mar/CVE-2022-23301Important

HEVC Video Extensions Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Mar 8, 2022

References

msrc.microsoft.com / update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-23301