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CVE-2022-35828

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-35828 is an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability affecting Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Mac. This high-severity flaw, with a CVSS score of 7.8, allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges with low attack complexity and no user interaction, potentially leading to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not currently listed in CISA's KEV catalog or having public exploit code, it was addressed in Microsoft's September 2022 Patch Tuesday and has seen limited community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:defender_for_endpoint:-:*:*:*:*:macos:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
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
0.48%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
38.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0048 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 17,061 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 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 nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for MacFixed in: 101.78.13

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2022-Sep/CVE-2022-35828Important

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for Mac Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Sep 13, 2022

References

portal.msrc.microsoft.com / en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2022-35828
PatchVendor Advisory
msrc.microsoft.com / update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-35828